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Brains of people blind from birth reorganise to take over visual functions
Research into the brains of people who have been blind from birth shows that areas of the cortex normally responsible for vision take on other functions — such as processing sound, touch or language. This phenomenon, known as cross-modal plasticity, demonstrates the remarkable adaptive capacity of the human brain. The findings confirm that the absence of visual stimuli from birth leads to profound reorganisation of brain structures.
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