For much of the past century, blind children attended residential institutions where they learned to read by touching the words.

在过去的一个世纪中，盲童们就读于寄宿式学校并在那学习依靠手触阅读。

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"We found that the visual cortex in the blind was much more strongly activated than it was in the sighted, where visual cortex was mostly deactivated by sounds and touch," Rauschecker says.

我们发现盲人大脑中的视觉皮层较之常人被强烈的激发着，而常人大脑中的视觉皮层被声音和触摸影响。Rauscheckers说。

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In moving from written to spoken language, the greatest consequences for blind people may not be cognitive but cultural - a loss much harder to avoid.

从书面语言到口语的转变，盲人获得的最大益处是文化上的而非感知上的—这是一种更难避免的损失。

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You should know that people have to live for 43 years pretty much one way as a blind person.

大家可以想象,不得不带着一只失明的眼睛生活了43年的人,几乎就是个盲人。

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