Study finds unique patterns like ‘fingerprints’ in brains of people born blind
NEW DELHI, July 31 (PTI): In people born blind, the primary visual cortex, the brain region known to process visual information, develops unique patterns different to those in people with sight, researchers said, likening these patterns to an “individual fingerprint.”
They said that the connectivity in the visual cortices of people who can see did not show such varied changes and were “usually fairly consistent.”
“The connectivity pattern in people born blind is more different across people, like an individual fingerprint, and is stable over time — so much so that the individual person can be identified from the connectivity pattern,” said lead author Ella Striem-Amit, an assistant professor of neuroscience at the Georgetown University, US.
