TY - CHAP N2 - How what we perceive is transformed into a coherent and integrated representation of the world around us is a question that has fascinated humans since the early days. What happens in our brain that enables us to make sense of what we see, hear, touch, smell or taste? How does the brain of someone who has never had any visual perception form an image of the external world? Do brains from sighted and blind individuals differ and how? In this chapter we discuss recent findings from research in animals as well from functional brain imaging studies in sighted and blind individuals that are shedding new light on how the brain works. SP - 360 SN - 978-0-12-374168-4 PB - Academic Press A1 - Pietrini, Pietro A1 - Ptito, Maurice A1 - Kupers, Ron UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123741684000277 Y1 - 2009/// TI - Blindness and Consciousness: New Light from the Dark AV - none CY - San Diego T2 - The Neurology of Consciousness. Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropathology EP - 374 ID - eprints3092 ER -