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Published online 25 January 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050124-6
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Plastic brains help the blind place sounds
Brain areas for vision are co-opted for locating sound in space.
Blind people have been shown to recruit visual areas of the brain to pinpoint the direction of sounds.
The finding, published this week in PLoS Biology1, gives the first clear link between superior hearing abilities in blind people and increased activity in the visual centres of their brains.
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