“…A few studies have investigated multisensory processing after visual sensory deprivation (see also Richards et al., 2019b for a review; Röder and Kekunnaya, 2021 for a review). Animal studies have shown that whereas the number of multisensory neurons in cats that were raised in complete darkness does not differ from sighted control animals, the response properties of those neurons differed between dark-reared and sighted control cats ( Wallace et al., 2004 ).…”