In my last article I talked about artist John Bramblitt and his amazing abilities in the field of painting, despite his current condition rendering him blind. This skill amazed me a lot, and at first I didn’t understand how such abilities developed. After gathering more research on the topic, it might be possible for me to explain how John Bramblitt developed those skills. He can touch the paint and the people’s faces, and from that, he’s able to make a portrait that resembles the person. He can also differentiate the different colors by feeling their texture. His lack of sensory visuals caused the enhancement of his tactile receptors, of course, the latter progression is known as “Cross-Modal Plasticity”. It is common for this to happen in…show more content… With this experiment they were able to test the functional specificity of brain areas with high precision. Four bilateral areas were chosen. These include the localization area and motion processing area, because they are involved in supramodal tasks. The primary auditory cortex and auditory movement detection area, where the other two. The experiment results were more revealing than expected, the article states “the first demonstration that enhanced visual abilities in deaf individuals are not globally distributed throughout auditory areas, but are instead localized to specific and functionally homologous cortices ” (Bavelier, D.A. 2010). This means that the results showed that it occurs in certain areas. Also they concluded “The degraded performance in the deaf cats in the two relevant tasks was equivalent to the performance of the hearing cats, demonstrating that the enhanced visual ability in the deaf cats can be attributed to processing in these distinct reorganized auditory cortices” (Bavelier, D.A. 2010). As a result a proposal was made that stated that supramodal fuctions are more likely to engaged in cross-modal
