Table 1.

Background information of congenitally blind subjects

Subject	Age (yr), gender	Years of education	Cause of blindness	Light perception	Reported age at blindness onset	Experiments participated
1	21, M	12	Congenital microphthalmia	None	0	Task-fMRI
2	18, M	12	Congenital glaucoma and cataracts	None	0	Task-fMRI
3	23, M	0	Congenital anophthalmos	None	0	Task-fMRI
4	30, M	12	Congenital microphthalmia and microcornea	None	0	Task-fMRI
5	38, F	12	Congenital glaucoma	None	0	Both
6	45, M	12	Congenital microphthalmia; cataracts; leukoma	None	0	Both
7	44, F	9	Congenital glaucoma	None	0	Both
8	46, F	12	Cataracts; congenital eyeball dysplasia	Faint	0	Both
9	53, M	12	Congenital eyeball dysplasia	None	0	Both
10	36, M	12	Congenital leukoma	Faint	0	Both
11	36, F	12	Congenital optic nerve atrophy	Faint	0	Both
12	58, M	9	Congenital glaucoma and leukoma	None	0	Both
13	41, M	12	Congenital glaucoma	None	0	Both
14	28, F	15	Congenital microphthalmia; microcornea; leukoma	Faint	0	Resting-state fMRI
15	37, F	12	No professional medical establishment of cause of blindness	Faint	0	Resting-state fMRI
16	60, M	12	No professional medical establishment of cause of blindness	Faint	0	Resting-state fMRI
17	46, M	12	No professional medical establishment of cause of blindness	Faint	0	Resting-state fMRI
18	54, F	9	No professional medical establishment of cause of blindness	Faint	0	Resting-state fMRI