more: Their experiments found that the brain adapted input from other regions into the blind spot within seconds. They related this to the idea of "referred sensations", where the brain remaps signals from a missing body part to input from somewhere else that's still attached. Experiments with stroke victims who'd permanently lost part of the vision gave the same results: the bleeding of information from the remaining nerves into the blank region.

Of course vision isn't quite the same as a body part, but the idea is the same: how neurons adapt to deal with missing information, and how they can incorporate data from other body parts with amazing speed. Extremely good news for those waiting for the technology to implant extra connectors into their heads.

Luke McKinney.

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