In 2004, he was the subject of a study of human perception, conducted by the psychologist [John M.Kennendy (psychologist)] of University of Toronto and proved that a person who is blind from birth can develop absolutely normally without visual contact with the outside world. In 2008 two researchers from Harvard [Amir Amedi] and Alvaro Pascual-Leone, tried to find more about neural plasticity using Armağan as a study case.[1] Both scientists had evidence that in cases of blindness, the "visual" cortex acts differently from how it acts with the non-blind.
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