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Feel the music

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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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  1. Levanen, S. et al. Feeling vibrations: enhanced tactile sensitivity in congenitally deaf adults. Neuroscience Letters 301, 75 - 77 (2001).

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Klarreich, E. Feel the music. Nature (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/news011129-10

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