视觉经验在客体概念表征中的作用一直是认知科学与认知神经科学领域的研究热点。本项目拟利用颜色知觉信息仅能通过视觉经验获得这一特点，收集健康人与完全没有视觉经验的先天盲人加工客体颜色概念的认知行为数据及任务态fMRI数据，通过比较两组被试的客体颜色概念加工行为表现与神经表征机制的异同，探讨视觉经验在客体概念表征中的作用。本项目的研究成果将对视觉经验与概念表征的关系、人类大脑对概念的表征方式以及大脑功能组织模式等研究问题具有重要的启示作用。

The role of visual experience in object concept representation is at core interest of modern cognitive neuroscience researches. Taking advantage of the characteristic that perceptual information of color could only be accessed through vision, this project plans to study the role of visual experience in object concept representation comparing the behavioral profiles and neural substrates (investigated through task-fMRI) of object color concept representation in sighted and congenitally blind participants. We expect that these studies would enrich the understanding of the relation between visual experience and concept representation and shed light on the core neural substrates for concept representation and the functional architecture of the human brain.