Łukasz Bola

The paper investigates how congenitally blind and sighted individuals process nouns and verbs using fMRI, finding that the blind visual cortex, specifically V5/MT, responds to concrete nouns and verbs based on their physical properties.

The paper shows that blind and sighted humans' visual cortex represents semantic dimensions related to word referents' physical properties during word processing, suggesting shared representational mechanisms.

The paper shows that blind individuals' fusiform gyrus responds to human facial expression sounds, linking shape and action, but not to speech or animal sounds.