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Both sighted and blind individuals can readily interpret meaning behind everyday real‐world sounds. In sighted listeners, we previously reported that regions along the bilateral posterior superior temporal sulci (pSTS) and middle temporal gyri (pMTG) are preferentially activated when presented with recognizable action sounds. These regions have generally been hypothesized to represent primary loci for complex motion processing, including visual biological motion processing and audio–visual integration. However, it remained unclear whether, or to what degree, life‐long visual experience might impact functions related to hearing perception or memory of sound‐source actions. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we compared brain regions activated in congenitally blind versus sighted listeners in response to hearing a wide range of recognizable human‐produced action sounds (excluding …