London, October 24 : An expert at Oregon Health and Science University has identified an area of the brain tapped by people blinded early in life to develop better hearing than individuals with their visions intact.
Alexander Stevens says that blind people co-opt the medial occipital—part of the visual system that plays a crucial role in registering visual signals by setting the threshold at which they are noticed by the brain—to help detect sounds.
In a study, the researcher played a series of sounds to blind subjects, each of which was preceded by a cue. He scanned their brains as they heard the sounds.

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London, Oct 23 : Bats developed fight skills before echolocation, a new study presented at the 67th annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) in Austin, Texas, has said.

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London, Oct 23 : A mystery motorcyclist swerved to avoid the wreckage of the car carrying Princess Diana moments after the fatal crash 10 years ago, a witness has revealed.