For hearing parts of brain, deafness reorganizes sensory inputs, not behavioral function

Tuesday, May 10, 2011 - 15:31 in Biology & Nature

– The part of the brain that uses hearing to determine sound location is reorganized in deaf animals to locate visual targets, according to a new study by a team of researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Western Ontario in Canada.

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