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Published online 27 November 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news011129-10
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Feel the music
Deaf people use 'mind's ear' to process vibrations.
After going deaf, Beethoven sawed the legs off his piano and played it on the floor so he could feel its vibrations. Nearly two centuries later, brain imaging is revealing that deaf people may 'hear' vibrations just like others hear sounds - using the auditory centres of the brain.
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