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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:sec><jats:label /><jats:p>Patients who were born with total bilateral cataracts and who were treated late in life show permanent deficits in visual acuity and other basic visual functions. Some higher visual functions are more (face identity processing, coherent motion processing) and other higher order visual functions (biological motion processing, visual exploration) are less impaired than expected from the visual acuity loss. Moreover, the integration of the late available visual input with the intact sensory inputs (hearing, touch) seems to be partially altered. The present talk will focus on new behavioural, electrophysiological and both functional and structural brain imaging results aiming to uncover the neural mechanisms of sight recovery in patients who had suffered from an extended period of blindness before they underwent cataract removal surgery.</jats:p></jats:sec>