Researchers have found evidence that the representation of auditory and tactile information in the brains of blind people shows strong similarities to the way in which visual information is represented in sighted people.
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Fine, I. Do you hear what I see?. Nature 508, 461–462 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/508461a
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