Researchers find the blind use visual brain area to improve other senses

Wednesday, October 6, 2010 - 11:50 in Psychology & Sociology

People who have been blind from birth make use of the visual parts of their brain to refine their sensation of sound and touch, according to an international team of researchers led by neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC).

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