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we showed random all has volunteered to be the subject of an extraordinary
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experiment manual and a little more support or
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moments mission was going to lose your site
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basic basically house abit suspects that’s a great relief
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dot was the real believe and anyway right
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that you’re a psychologist over all of us quality on a traditional won’t keep
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buying something intelligent snippet of photographic film one vote
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relational
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it’s now nineteen a m monday morning
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starbucks
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michelle totally blind until three p m bright-eyed
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as things turn out, my mother and i were able to leave cuba together in nineteen
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sixty-two
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boeing and the debate coupled with the story and media would transmit mind bird
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bird operation peter pan program hearings is living as a proof reader for
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braille publications sixteen information forays into his brain
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principally through the tip of his right index finger
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an astonishing rate
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for years bring scientists have been fascinated by skill and have wondered if
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it involves a change in the way the brings organize
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this little device prisons braille letters to a fingertip for just a few
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milliseconds
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with deals baseline skill established up now comes the dramatic partner
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experiment phase
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and difficult government extermination correo
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this caller will deliver a powerful magnetic draw to guilds brain c
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temporarily disabling the region immediately anything targeting
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route targeting
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the back of your brain
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and in fact
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dubach part of your brain and with all the visual cortex
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the visual cortex singles information from the eyes
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at least and those of us would cite feel oppressed
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which makes this experiment seem rather odd
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wise after the jewel cortex when what’s being tested is a skill involving touch
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twitches processed in another part of the brain entirely
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in fact this is a recreation of an experiment first done by al gore on his
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colleague several years ago kate gilles experience today perfectly replicates
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that experiment
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they felt very good by faith
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dots were coming up
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as well as before
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skills accuracy declined to
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the extraordinary implication is that deals visual cortex is involved in
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reading braille
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as if his brain has somehow rewire itself to recruit for touch brain cells
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most of his use perceive
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and this is the reason for michelle’s abrupt encounter with blinds the
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question is
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can her brain also rewire itself to help read braille
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in her case after just a few days as compared with deals of my time with
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outside
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later on that first day of michelle’s blindness chief-of-staff ever hit exam
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in an m_r_i_ machine that will take pictures of her brain well different
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senses are stimulated
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to understand results we need a brief lesson in brainerd
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can you show me the parts of the brain that i use one um looking at stuff
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that mean of another pair
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if you have to fix it
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so basically crystallite would be coming in through here but it actually tell us
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all the way to do a very back of your brain
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and it is this
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back-off the brandy occipital cortex did
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is there a visual cortex like were to be about politics
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so it that’s where i see where the way
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right so if i mentioned from your hand
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your right hand will come to the left
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side of your brain
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dispersive with me here to there
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foresee a part of the central softness
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information from the left and will come
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today out the site of the right side of the brain
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in this day wondrous demand shield rain
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the results were no surprise when the index finger her left hand was
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stimulated
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the touch sensing region on the right side of the brain lit up just as it
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would and you were me
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but now michelle settles down for her one hundred hours of lines
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favorite movie doesn’t need a picture and
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their own walks around the hospital coroner’s that
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antibodies to exercise your sense of touch
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happy valentine’s day
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practice reading brion
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hours and hours of practice reading bread for until finally
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it’s frightening
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in these last few hours of blinds michelle returns the m_r_i_ scan
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this time of brain looks very different
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instead a brick touch sensing region lighting up
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melhor visual cortex is active
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this is it’s finding itself with nothing better to do
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the visual cortex has stepped in to help with the test gives more skilled at them
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is the touch region making sense of symbols
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this
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this possibility he strengthened when michelle is tested as do was to see
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disrupting her visual cortex impairs your ability to read braille
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her braille test is a little easier than deals
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to identify whether pairs of letters are the same or different
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them now michelle’s visual cortex gets ten minutes into the magnetic coils
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after kroger
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story i think you’re right index finger here
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ride
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true enough just like the overhead he received rob’s mortgage loan
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this occurred
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averell has reason to be excited
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michelle’s experiences dramatic confirmation of this hypothesis that the
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brain can reorganize itself in just a few dates and let alone a lifetime
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i don’t think that the brain is right
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market economy
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that is the amount for certain things
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reactivate whatever it meets it to cover that the man
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there is no demand for it
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that we use it for something else is literally like guinea good shopkeeper
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would bill you adjust whatever you offer
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the people causing by
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but each of what they’re going to need