Blindness significantly impacts the ability to acquire spatial information and build a cognitive map to stay oriented in the environment. Possible consequences include reduced autonomy, increased anxiety, social isolation, and overall decreased quality of life. It is therefore important to investigate non-visual cognitive map formation and its underlying neural mechanisms, which are still poorly understood. Therefore, we used fMRI to study the neural correlates of cognitive map formation through touch and audition in individuals with congenital and acquired blindness, and sighted individuals as controls. We used a three-phased game-like paradigm, designed to differentiate between 1) the formation of a cognitive map, 2) its retrieval, and 3) use during navigation. In phase 1 (maze exploration), participants used their fingers to learn the layout of a tactile maze containing multiple destinations. In phase 2 (drop-off), participants were randomly placed inside a virtual rendering of the same maze and were given a goal destination. In phase 3 (navigation), participants navigated in this virtual space with auditory feedback to reach the destination. Preliminary results reveal distinct neural patterns during navigation in each group: sighted controls showed a reliance on frontal, insular, and parietal cortices, and blind subjects significantly activated visual occipital areas and cerebellum, combined with a general deactivation in the rest of the brain. However, depending on if participants were forming, retrieving, or using their cognitive map, different activation patterns emerged across the navigation network (hippocampus, parahippocampal place area, retrosplenial complex, occipital place area), informing on their different spatial functions in blindness.