Impact of deprivation and preferential usage on functional connectivity between early visual cortex and category selective visual regions.

Portions of early visual cortex representing central vs. peripheral vision exhibit different patterns of connectivity to category-selective visual regions.When central vision is lost, cortical representations of peripheral vision display stronger functional connections to MT than central representations.When central vision is lost, connectivity to regions selective for tasks that involve central vision (FFA and PHA) are not significantly altered.These effects do not depend on which locations of peripheral vision are used more.