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ArticleScience advances2026

Congenital blindness reduces myelination in human visual cortex.

Anna-Lena Stroh, Luke J Edwards, Daniel Haenelt, Fakhereh Movahedian Attar, Kerrin J Pine, Robert Trampel, Marcin Szwed, Nikolaus Weiskopf

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8 authors.

Anna-Lena StrohInstitute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, ul. Ingardena 6, 30-060 Kraków, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-1628-2287
Luke J EdwardsDepartment of Neurophysics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstraße 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8320-7298
Daniel HaeneltDepartment of Neurophysics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstraße 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2310-5086
Fakhereh Movahedian AttarDepartment of Neurophysics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstraße 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2109-6692
Kerrin J PineDepartment of Neurophysics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstraße 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2486-2970
Robert TrampelDepartment of Neurophysics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstraße 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3080-9412
Marcin SzwedInstitute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, ul. Ingardena 6, 30-060 Kraków, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-2153-7793
Nikolaus WeiskopfDepartment of Neurophysics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Stephanstraße 1a, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5239-1881

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Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sensory experience is critical for cortical maturation, but the cellular consequences of its absence remain poorly understood in humans. Using in vivo sub-millimeter 3 T and 7 T MRI and ultra-high-gradient diffusion MRI, we investigated the effects of congenital blindness on the human early visual cortex. Blind individuals showed reduced

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