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Title: Pascual-Leone found that the sensorimotor cortex on the side representing the finger area used to ...
Post by: mariasmakatof on Dec 11, 2023
Pascual-Leone found that the sensorimotor cortex on the side representing the finger area used to read Braille was larger in blind participants one year after Braille training. The area was also significantly larger than in sighted and in blind participants who did not learn to read Braille. This is an example of______ induced by increased use of another sense compensating loss of one sense.

▸ functional plasticity

▸ structural plasticity

▸ synaptic plasticity

▸ short-term plasticity


Title: Re: Pascual-Leone found that the sensorimotor cortex on the side representing the finger area used to ...
Post by: edatay on Dec 11, 2023
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