Andrew Huberman· PhD
That real estate in the brain will be taken over by neurons that control sense of touch and a sense of hearing, and your, indeed, hearing and touch are much better, higher acuity, and faster in blind people.
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That real estate in the brain will be taken over by neurons that control sense of touch and a sense of hearing, and your, indeed, hearing and touch are much better, higher acuity, and faster in blind people.
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And you can demonstrate that people who are born blind are better at hearing and and at touch and so on. They can discriminate things much more finely.
So it turns out um you know right people who are born blind what we call the visual cortex at the back of the back of the head here that gets taken over. It's no longer visual. It becomes devoted to hearing to touch to memory things like this.