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If you were blind since birth and learned how to identify objects by your sense of touch, could you distinguish those objects by sight alone if your vision was suddenly restored?
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The Artistic Brain: A Neuroaesthetics Approach to Health, Well-being and Learning
Whether we observe or create, the arts change our brains. The emerging field of neuroaethetics may help us understand how and why.
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Cognitive scientist, Marlene Behrmann, investigates what can be learned about visual perception through injury and disorders.
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Help your students learn about sidedness within their own bodies.
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How We Experience Our World
Sense organs are the brain’s windows to the outside world.
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