The Blind Use The Visual Cortex To Process Sound: Scientific American Podcast - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast...
May 30, 2011
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"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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"...And now scientists have learned that the area of the brain that processes the echoes is not the region for hearing—it’s actually the visual cortex. The research is in the journal Public Library of Science ONE. http://www.plosone.org/article..."
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