Sighted people devote much their cortex to visual processing, but in the blind, 'visual' areas are recruited for other senses. A paper in this issue now reports that V1 in the blind is also activated by a verbal memory task, without any sensory input.
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Büchel, C. Cortical hierarchy turned on its head. Nat Neurosci 6, 657–658 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0703-657
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