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In this study, we attempted to reproduce the rsFC results presented in an original study by Bauer et al. in 2017 on a group of sighted control (SC) and early blind (EB) subjects. By using the original dataset, we utilized another widely used software package to investigate how applying different implementations of the original pipeline (RMin model) or a more rigorous and extensive preprocessing stream (RExt model) can alter the whole-brain rsFC results. Our replication study was not able to fully reproduce the findings of the original paper. Overall, RExt shifted the distribution of rsFC values and reduced functional network density more drastically compared with RMin and the original pipeline. Remarkably, the largest rsFC effects appeared to primarily belong to certain connection pairs, irrespective of the pipeline used, likely demonstrating immunity of the larger effects and the true results against suboptimal processing. 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