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. The Blind Brain

NPR's Joe Palca reports that scientists have found new evidence that the human brain may be more flexible than previously believed. New research has found that when blind people read braille, they use a part of the brain that researchers had thought was only used for vision. That suggests the brain can rewire itself in ways never before understood.

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