[gui-talk] OK, but I still don't have perfect pitch, love of dogs, or hyper-hearing

[Hoffman, Allen]

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Blindness Causes Structural Brain

Changes, Implying Brain Can

Re-Organize Itself to Adapt

Science Daily Nov. 19, 2009

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Blindness causes structural changes

in the brain, indicating that the

brain may reorganize itself

functionally in order to adapt to a

loss in sensory input, say UCLA

Department of Neurology scientists.

For long-term blind subjects, they

found significant enlargement in

areas of the brain not responsible

for vision, such as working memory

and...

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