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Unlocking the mysteries of our brain | David Eagleman

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Is There a Re Purposing of Neurons?

Nurons are constantly unplugging and re plugging to find where they fit. If a neuron doesn't fit anywhere, it actually commits suicide. This helps make sense of this idea that er o the re purposing of senses. So we're used to thinking about fred was born blind, as visual cortex got taken over by these other things. But some colleages o mind in harvard did the study where they put people on the skin an they blindfolded them tightly. They looked at their brains responses to touch, things like that. You were seeing activation. And when i read that paper, i talked with my student, and we talked about is all day, and

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