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Younger brains are easier to rewire — brain regions can switch functions
October 22, 2010 by NewsBot
Neuroscientists offer evidence that it is easier to rewire the brain early in life. The researchers found that a small part of the brain's visual cortex that processes motion became reorganized only in the brains of subjects who had been born blind, not those who became blind later in life.