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The visual cortex, the part of the brain that receives information from the eyes, has been known to respond to sound or touch in people who are blind. Researchers have now shown it may be unwittingly repurposed to process movement.
鈥淎fter the loss of vision, the visual cortex loses its primary purpose,鈥 says at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology in Japan. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a waste of brain resources鈥 so it鈥檚 an essential characteristic of our brain that it allows the visual…
