Plasticity & Face Recognition Marlene Behrmann

Published: Nov. 13, 2018, 7:55 p.m.

b'Might our brains have greater plasticity than commonly thought? In episode 36, Marlene Behrmann from Carnegie Mellon University, discusses her 3-year longitudinal investigation of a young boy who had the region of his brain which recognizes faces removed, but regained this ability through neural plasticity.'