Learning Complex Tasks Helps To “Retune” The Brain

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Learning to read braille can train the neurons of the visual cortex to process somatosensory stimuli. Africa Studio/Shutterstock

Traditional understandings of the human brain tend to portray it as the most breathtakingly complex biological machine on the planet. Like all machines, it consists of a series of bounded components – or brain regions – each of which performs a particular task.