Table 1.

Characteristics of blind participants

Participant	Cohort	Gender	Age	Cause of blindness	Light perception	Handedness	Age of blindness onset
1	A	F	29	Microphthalmia	None	Right	0
2	A	F	23	Microphthalmia, retinal detachment	None	Left	0
3	A	F	30	Retinopathy of prematurity	None	Right	0
4	A	M	37	Retinopathy of prematurity	None	Right	0
5	A	F	38	Enophthalmus	None	Left	0
6	A	M	54	Retinopathy of prematurity	None	Right	0
7	A	M	23	Microphthalmia	None	Right	0
8	A	F	34	Retinopathy of prematurity	None	Right	0
9	A	M	31	Retinopathy of prematurity	None	Right	0
10	A	F	35	Retinoblastoma	None	Right	0
11	A	F	34	Microphthalmia	None	Left	0
12	A	F	30	Leber congenital amaurosis	Faint	Ambidextrous	0
13	A	M	42	Retinopathy of prematurity	Faint	Right	0
14	B	M	36	Microphthalmia	None	Ambidextrous	0
15	B	M	22	Microphthalmia	None	Right	0
16	B	M	33	Microphthalmia; microcornea	None	Right	0
17	B	M	48	Glaucoma	None	Right	0
18	B	F	46	Glaucoma	None	Right	0
19	B	M	40	Leukoma	Faint	Right	0
20	B	F	50	Cataracts; eyeball dysplasia	Faint	Right	0
21	B	M	57	Eyeball dysplasia	None	Right	0
22	B	F	43	Glaucoma	None	Right	0
23	B	M	48	Microphthalmia; cataracts; leukoma	None	Right	0
24	B	M	63	Glaucoma; leukoma	None	Right	0
25	B	F	41	Optic nerve atrophy	Faint	Right	0

Cohort A was acquired in Israel and comprised 13 blind adults and 18 sighted controls (Striem-Amit et al., 2015). Cohort B was acquired in China and comprised 12 blind adults and 13 sighted controls (Striem-Amit et al., 2018b). F, Female; M, male.