定籐先生の論文は、
Sadato N, Pascual-Leone A, Grafman J, Ibanez V, Deiber M-P, Dold G and Hallett M. Activation of the primary visual cortex by Braille reading in blind subjects. Nature 380: 526-528, 1996.
ちなみに経路にご興味をお持ちなら以下の論文が面白いかもしれません
Shimony JS: Diffusion tensor imaging reveals white matter reorganization in early blind humans
http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/bhj102v1
BOLDと神経活動の相関については以下の論文あたりでその妥当性が検証されてます
Logothetis NK: The neural basis of the blood-oxygen-level-dependent
functional magnetic resonance imaging signal
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=12217171