How the Brain of a Blind Person Rewires Itself

Do blind people really have a sharpened sense of hear ing? What is theexplanation? This article reports the work of Ger man researchers who looked at blind people’s brains to try to answer these questions. They found out that indeed, blind peo ple can under­stand speech even if sped up beyond the maximum rate that sighted people can understand. This seemed pos sible because the brain areas devoted to vision in people with eye sight turned out to be responding to speech in blind people.

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