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From: vickroy@mis.ucsf.edu (Chip Vick Roy)
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Subject: Re: Flexibility of nervous systems
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Date: 15 Mar 89 16:49:46 GMT
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In article <1595@astroatc.UUCP> johne@astroatc.UUCP (Jonathan Eckrich) writes:
>
>I recently read an article (Sorry, but I cannot recall the name) that
>discussed operations performed on infant ferrets.  The optic nerves were
>rerouted to what should be the part of the brain that handles hearing.
>
The article you refer to is:
	"Experimentally Induced Visual Projections into Auditory
	Thalamus and Cortex", by Mriganka Sur, Preston E. Garraghty
	and Anna W. Roe, Science v242, Dec 9, 1988, p1437-41.

This is a marvelous study which demonstrates significant plasticity 
of the developing nervous system, even across different sensory modalities.