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Some people identify smells as easily as if they were colours

Some people identify smells as easily as if they were colours

18 January 2018

Most people are much better at identifying colours than smells, but one group of hunter-gatherers from the Malay Peninsula shows the opposite pattern
A centre in France for people with visual impairment

Blind people repurpose the brain's visual areas for language

18 September 2017

For the first time, language processing has been detected in areas of the brain that usually process vision, highlighting the organ’s extraordinary flexibility

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