Comment on Open thread, 3-8 June 2014

DanB
Tue, 03 Jun 2014 17:06:07 GMT

I would guess strongly (75%) that the answer is yes. There are incredible stories about people's brains adapting to new inputs. There is one paper in the neuroscience literature that showed how if you connect a video input to a blind cat's auditory cortex, that brain region will adapt new neural structures that are usually associated with vision (like edge detectors).

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