Brains of blind people reading in Braille show activity in same area that lights up when sighted readers read
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 - 15:30
in Psychology & Sociology
The portion of the brain responsible for visual reading doesn't require vision at all. Brain imaging studies of blind people as they read words in Braille show activity in precisely the same part of the brain that lights up when sighted readers read. The findings challenge the textbook notion that the brain is divided up into regions that are specialized for processing information coming in via one sense or another, the researchers say.