Michael Granovetter

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Recognizing Words and Faces After Hemispherectomies and Significance of Adamts10 Gene In Glaucoma FormationDr. Michael Granovetter (University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh, PA) Dr. John Kuchtey (Vanderbilt Eye Institute - Nashville, TN) Dr. Michael ...

Big Think

You can live just fine with half a brainChildren who have a brain hemisphere removed — a procedure known as hemispherectomy — behave completely normally.

Asian News International

Research finds how single brain hemisphere can support words, face recognitionDuring recent brain plasticity and visual perception research, it was found that individuals who had had surgery as children to remove half of their brains correctly detected differences between words or faces more than 80 per cent of the time.

IFLScience

People Missing Half Their Brain Still Recognize Words And Faces, Study FindsThe human brain is remarkably plastic.

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Autistic people may have trouble tuning out distractionsPupil response suggests autistic people have atypical activity in a part of the brain that regulates attention.

NPR's All Things Considered

Meet the 'glass-half-full girl' whose brain rewired after losing a hemisphereMora Leeb was 9 months old when surgeons removed half her brain. Now 15, she plays soccer and tells jokes. Scientists say Mora is an extreme example of a process known as brain plasticity.

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Only Half a Brain Needed to Recognize Words and Faces | Health And MedicineA study of human brain plasticity and visual perception highlighted potential treatments for patients with traumatic injury. Neuroplasticity is the brain&r | Health And Medicine

Medical Xpress

Adults who, as children, had half their brain removed still able to score well with face and word recognitionA team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Institute has found that adults who had a hemispherectomy as a child scored surprisingly well on face and word recognition tests. Their paper is posted on the bioRxiv preprint server.

New Scientist

People with half a brain removed do well at face and word recognitionAdults who had the left or right hemisphere of their brain removed as children to treat epileptic seizures had accuracy scores of over 80 per cent on word and face recognition tasks

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