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blind

blind Blindness is visual deprivation in which a person lacks visual experience, providing a model for studying how the brain organizes itself without sight.

Blindness is visual deprivation in which a person lacks visual experience, providing a model for studying how the brain organizes itself without sight. In this context, the occipital cortex, usually linked to vision, can become involved in touch, hearing, language, memory, mathematics, and executive functions through altered patterns of brain connectivity.