Blind people can remember speech better than sighted people, but a person's ability to see makes no difference in how they remember sound effects, found a new study by Johns Hopkins University and the ...

In the brains of people blind from birth, structures used in sight are still put to work -- but for a very different purpose. Rather than processing visual information, they appear to handle language.

A person who is born blind may be able to recruit the unused brain regions related to vision for language-related tasks, a new study has found. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited ...

People who are blind use parts of their brain that normally handle for vision to process language, as well as sounds – highlighting the brain’s extraordinary ability to requisition unused real estate ...

People who are blind use part of their visual cortex for language and semantic processing. The visual cortex is the paradigm case of a "modality-specific" brain region, being devoted exclusively to ...

A person who is born blind may be able to recruit the unused brain regions related to vision for language-related tasks, a new study has found. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited ...