Young brains can take on new functions. Visual cortex of blind children can be remodeled to process language


MIT-Brain-Language[Source: MIT News, August 27, 2015]

In 2011, MIT neuroscientist Rebecca Saxe and colleagues reported that in blind adults, brain regions normally dedicated to vision processing instead participate in language tasks such as speech and comprehension. Now, in a study of blind children, Saxe’s lab has found that this transformation occurs very early in life, before the age of 4. Read more…