// Reichman University: Possible New Approach to Helping the Blind — Study

A new study by researchers at Reichman University’s Brain Cognition and Technology Institute has shown that visual navigation areas in the brain can be activated with sound. By traversing mazes using sound information instead of visual information after training, visual navigation areas were activated. Reichman University formerly was known as IDC Herzliya.
— The Jerusalem Post
 
Quote: “This finding has numerous exciting implications. Among them is that the findings chip away at the Nobel Prize-winning theory of critical periods, and provide new ways for cognitive training that could potentially detect and even prevent Alzheimer’s disease.”
— The Jerusalem Post
 
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Photo of Reichman University: The Times of Israel
 
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