The Blind Use the Visual Cortex to Process Sound
from 60-Second Mind Hosted by Scientific American
Recent research has confirmed that in blind subjects who use echolocation to navigate, it is the visual part of the brain that processes the auditory echoes. Christie Nicholson reports
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