PSY100H1 Lecture 7: Lecture 7
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our brain"s connections are refined and retuned with every experience of our lives. only recently have we begun to appreciate our brains" incredible. plasticity is amazing, but the limits are unknown. certainly, age is a factor: e. g. , young children with severe epilepsy . e. g. , if you cut off a finger, that part of the sensory cortex will start to receive signals from the fingers enhanced sensitivity in other areas. e. g. , if blind sensory cortex corresponding to the braille-reading finger expands; sense of touch starts to get processed by the visual cortex. then if you knock out the visual cortex temporarily (i. e. , through magnetic stimulation) that person will make language errors. plasticity is not infinite, even in babies. e. g. , suffer damage to facial recognition areas of both temporal lobes never recognize faces normally.
