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The Repurposing of the Visual Cortex
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The visual cortex in people who are blind from birth gets repurposed as a center for processing tactile information, especially for braille readers who reallocate real estate to their fingertips. Understanding the structure of nervous tissue at a scale smaller than a millimeter is essential to comprehend the synaptic wiring of that chunk of nervous tissue.

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