Fig. 2.

a Functional reorganization of the visual cortex in blind subjects contributes to their improved performance in auditory and tactile tasks. In particular, occipital cortex activity correlates with superior performance of blind subjects when they localize sound using spectral shape cues. b Transient disruption of the right dorsal extrastriate cortex via rTMS (gray bars) produces a significant increase in auditory localization error rate in blind but not in sighted subjects. Adapted, with permission, from Collignon et al. (2007)