The brain of a blind person ‘rewires’ itself to enhance their other senses – just like the Hollywood film Scent of a Woman, according to new research.
Those born blind also make new connections in the absence of visual information, resulting in enhanced abilities such as a heightened sense of hearing, smell and touch.
Similarly, academics in Massachusetts found people without sight often have better cognitive function, such as memory and language.
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