And then, this is the last thing to mention, and that is that we went on and really, I did a lot of research on the effects of sensory loss on reorganization of the brain. When you take some of the inputs away, what happens – the cortex is reactivated. Mike Merzenich has specialized more in how behavior and training and experience can changed these maps. They are changed in a lot of ways in adult animals. So we were on the baseline of work by Nobel Prize winners like Sperry who said areas of the brain were not plastic, and everyone believed that, and there was very good reasons to believe that – why would you want to change the brain after it was made – that would be a dumb thing to do. But, turns out that brains are quite plastic. So we overturned another long-standing view.


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