Brains of the Blind Adjust to Significantly Enhance Other Senses From: R&D Magazine - 03/23/2017 By: Kenny Walter New research suggests that the brain rewires itself to help enhance other senses in blind people. According to a new study led by Massachusetts Eye and Ear, the brains of those who are born blind make new connections in the absence of visual information, resulting in enhanced, compensatory abilities such as a heightened sense of hearing, smell and touch, as well as cognitive functions like memory and language. Read the entire article at: http://www.rdmag.com/article/2017/03/brains-blind-adjust-significantly-enhance-other-senses Links: Brain “Rewires” Itself to Enhance Other Senses in Blind People https://www.mdtmag.com/news/2017/03/brain-rewires-itself-enhance-other-senses-blind-people Multimodal MR-imaging reveals large-scale structural and functional connectivity changes in profound early blindness http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0173064 Corinna Bauer http://www.masseyeandear.org/corinnabauer