Brains of people born with one hand show that brain is organized by function, not by body part.

Ilya Blokh
Your Daily Science
Published in
1 min readApr 21, 2017

A study showed that for people born with one hand, the area of the brain normally responsible for the missing hand is instead associated with other body parts — specifically, those that are used to perform the functions that would normally be performed by the missing hand.

Summary here. Original paper here.

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