Mandy often relies on her sense of touch to compensate for what she cannot hear. When Mandy feels the vibration of music in her chest, for example, her sensory organs detect the movement and convert the stimuli into neural signals. This is how ________ occurs.
When Mandy lost her hearing, she thought that her musical aspirations would never be realized. But the way Mandy adjusted to her hearing loss tells us a lot about _________, which is the process by which receptors in our sensory organs receive and detect stimuli.
Although Mandy is completely deaf, she is still able to draw from her experience to organize and interpret information from other sensory systems. This process of converting sensory information into something meaningful is called:
The ability of the brain to heal, grow new connections, and reorganize in order to adapt to the environment is called ____________. This is what has allowed Mandy’s increased use of her other senses.
Mandy is deaf, but her other sensory systems are intact. For example, Mandy can look at the world around her and perceive depth through convergence and retinal disparity, both of which are: