Visual Perception Rewired After Surgery for Epilepsy (IMAGE)

NIH/National Eye Institute

Visual Perception Rewired After Surgery for Epilepsy

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fMRI scans show that patient TC's word-specific region, which is normally found on the left, has remapped to the right hemisphere.

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Erez Freud, Ph.D., York University.

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