Table 1.
List of regions that showed significantly more activity in the blind compared to the sighted (top panel), showed significantly more activity in the sighted compared to the blind (middle panel), and regions that were equally activated in both groups as indicated by a conjunction analysis (bottom panel).
| Brain region (label at cluster peak) | Cluster size (in voxels) | Hemisphere | MNI peak coordinates |
T-values | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| X | Y | Z | ||||
| Blind > Sighted | ||||||
| Middle/Lateral occipital gyrus | 5205 | Right | 34 | -88 | 10 | 11.76 |
| Precentral gyrus | 471 | Right | 50 | 4 | 30 | 7.36 |
| Inferior parietal gyrus | 232 | Left | -38 | -60 | 54 | 6.83 |
| Cerebellum | 183 | Left | -20 | -66 | -44 | 6.22 |
| Superior frontal gyrus | 39 | Right | 28 | 8 | 60 | 5.59 |
| Medial frontal gyrus | 44 | Right | 2 | 34 | 36 | 5.42 |
| Thalamus | 48 | Right | 8 | -22 | 12 | 5.36 |
| Thalamus | 30 | Left | -12 | -20 | 18 | 5.34 |
| Temporal inferior | 66 | Left | -54 | -56 | -16 | 5.29 |
| Middle/Lateral occipital gyrus | 63 | Left | -28 | -88 | 10 | 5.24 |
| Sighted > Blind | ||||||
| Cuneus | 1031 | Left | -6 | -80 | 24 | 7.82 |
| Postcentral gyrus | 330 | Left | -52 | -18 | 16 | 7.33 |
| Lingual gyrus | 289 | Left | -14 | -50 | -6 | 6.95 |
| Lingual gyrus | 144 | Right | 10 | -52 | -2 | 6.48 |
| Superior temporal gyrus | 27 | Right | 56 | -32 | 14 | 5.73 |
| Heschl gyrus | 33 | Right | 54 | -10 | 8 | 5.51 |
| Parietal operculum | 46 | Left | -46 | -2 | 14 | 5.42 |
| Middle/Lateral occipital gyrus | 19 | Left | -40 | -60 | 4 | 4.99 |
| Sighted ∩ Blind | ||||||
| Inferior parietal gyrus | 127 | Left | -56 | -22 | 40 | 7.34 |
| Postcentral gyrus | 176 | Right | 54 | -18 | 34 | 6.25 |
| Inferior parietal gyrus | 40 | Left | -44 | -40 | 54 | 5.53 |
| Postcentral gyrus | 14 | Right | 40 | -28 | 38 | 5.31 |
Bold values indicate brain areas located within occipital cortex.