Adult brain can change within seconds
July 17, 2009 at 12:42 am | In discoveries, neuroscience, research | Leave a CommentTags: adult brain, amputee, brain, brain change, calibrations, cerebral, cortex, information, latent, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, McGovern Institute, MIT, neuron, neuroscience, re wire, research, sensory information, wire
Research done by neuroscientists from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) found that the adult brain can almost instantly change its re-wiring to adapt to new conditions.
People who has lost limbs often report feeling it when touched on the face. What wasn’t known was that the brain can readjust itself within 2 seconds. This led to the conclusion that the re-wiring wasn’t structural. The connections were already there, latent; and the brain monitors the system making calibrations constantly to adapt to new sensory information.
Read the full article by Cathryn M. Delude, from the McGovern Institute after the jump.
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