60-Second Mind
60-Second Mind
Scientific American
The Blind Use the Visual Cortex to Process Sound
2 minutes Posted May 28, 2011 at 10:00 am.
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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