Study shows that the shape of objects could be perceived via vision and touch

The inferolateral occipitotemporal cortex selectively encodes object shape even in people who become blind from a very early age, suggesting that the brain is organized as operators that execute a given function regardless of input senses

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Study shows that the shape of objects could be perceived via vision and touch; the inferolateral occipitotemporal cortex selectively encodes object shape even in people who become blind from a very early age, suggesting that the brain is organized as operators that execute a given function regardless of input senses.

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Article Title: Similar object shape representation encoded in the inferolateral occipitotemporal cortex of sighted and early blind people

Author Countries: Italy, Switzerland, Belgium

Funding: see manuscript

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PLoS Biology

DOI

10.1371/journal.pbio.3001930