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I have no idea why, it works on my end... Sorry.

Great question. We've looked into some of this in a previous paper (www.jneurosci.org/content/42/2...) and didn't find anything glaring pointing in this direction, but we're collecting more data on what behavioral correlates might explain the individual differences.

Sorry the link doesn't work - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... this ok? Looking forward to hearing your thought!

It also means that the primary visual cortex in congenital blindness doesn't switch roles and connectivity often - but that it may have a different specific role for each blind individual.

So, plasticity is variable in different people (doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...), but at least in adulthood, these patterns are stable. This suggests that individual differences in visual connectivity in blindness may be mined for biomarkers for assistive and restorative approaches.

Brain plasticity of each blind individual, where their brains differ from the sighted average, is also consistent over time. This means that different blind people have somewhat different *reorganization* for their visual cortex, which is stable over time.