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Using a specialized device that translates images into sound, Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientists and colleagues showed that people who are blind recognized basic faces using the part of the brain known as the fusiform face area, a region that is crucial for the processing of faces in sighted people.
For the study, researchers recruited six blind and 10 people who had normal vision, all of whom underwent practice sessions to learn to recognise faces via sounds.
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