How Much Has Your Brain Reorganized Because of Sensory Deprivation?

The brain is able to devote more surface area to those processes, because it's not being used for what it was intended. So we would start to see your auditory cortex light up in response to a visual stimulus. Think about how i menof people who have lost their on have a higher alertness for their hearing,. or people who are deaf might have a higher visual acuity.

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