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Table of contents
1. Introduction
1.1. Blindness – definition
1.2. Behavioral consequences of blindness
1.2.1. Perception
1.2.1.1. Tactile
1.2.1.2. Auditory
1.2.1.3. Olfactory & Gustatory
1.2.1.4. Beyond the traditional senses
1.2.2. High-order cognition
1.2.2.1. Numerical skills and language
1.2.2.2. Executive functions
1.2.2.3. Memory
1.2.2.4. Attention
1.3. Functional recruitment of the visual cortex
1.4. Early evidence for a functional role
1.5. Specialized functional recruitment
1.5.1. Somatosensory processing
1.5.2. Auditory processing
1.5.3. Modality-independent perceptual processing
1.5.4. Higher-order processing
1.5.5. Language processing
1.5.6. Other symbolic representations
1.5.7. Long-term memory
1.5.8. Executive functions
1.6. Connectivity of the visual cortex
1.7. Summary and thesis outline
2. Cognitive functions of the visual cortex in the blind
2.1. Distinctive expansion of cognitive networks into the visual cortex in the blind Abstract
2.1.1. Introduction
2.1.2. Materials and methods
2.1.3. Results
2.1.4. Discussion
2.1.5. Supplementary information
2.1.6. References
2.2. Innate connectivity of visual cortex
2.2.1. Hypothesis and analysis
2.2.2. Results
2.2.3. Discussion
2.2.4. Methods
2.3. Limitations and perspectives
3. Electrophysiological investigation of language
3.1. Semantic coding in the visual cortex of the early blind Abstract
3.1.1. Introduction
3.1.2. Materials and Methods
3.1.3. Results
3.1.4. Discussion
3.1.5. Supplementary information
3.1.6. References
3.2. Perspectives
4. General discussion
4.1. Thesis overview
4.2. Computation in the blind visual cortex
4.3. Function-connectivity correspondence
4.4. General perspectives
4.5. Conclusion
