BI 182: John Krakauer Returns… Again
Brain Inspired
Reevaluation of Seminal Papers on Brain Reorganization
The speaker collaborated with Tamar to meticulously analyze seminal papers on brain reorganization over a period of three years. They discovered that the commonly accepted narrative about the occipital cortex in blind individuals and the reorganization of brain areas for language and sensory functions is not accurate. The term 'reorganization' was found to have been used to imply something special, despite the actual findings not supporting this notion.
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