| Blindness and Brain Plasticity in Navigation and Object Perception Subjects: Behavioral Sciences; Education; Inclusion and Special Education; Psychological Science; Behavioral Neuroscience; Cognitive Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience; Research into the development of sensory structures in the brains of blind or visually-impaired individuals has opened a window into important ways in which the mind works. In these individuals, the part of the brain that is usually devoted to processing visual information is given over to increased processing of the touch and hearing sense. This d |