The brain is fairly plastic and can accommodate different types of process-
ing if it was organised differently physically — for example if there was sig-
nificant damage to one hemisphere of the brain. One of Michael Gazzaniga’s
patients developed the capacity to speak out of the right brain 13 years after
the brain surgery. There are also cases involving children, where one cere-
bral hemisphere was removed. Children who have undergone brain removal
at an early age develop more or less normally. The remaining cortex takes
over the functions once provided by the removed cortex. If the removal oc-
curs later in life, however, this sort of compensation does not occur.
ing if it was organised differently physically — for example if there was sig-
nificant damage to one hemisphere of the brain. One of Michael Gazzaniga’s
patients developed the capacity to speak out of the right brain 13 years after
the brain surgery. There are also cases involving children, where one cere-
bral hemisphere was removed. Children who have undergone brain removal
at an early age develop more or less normally. The remaining cortex takes
over the functions once provided by the removed cortex. If the removal oc-
curs later in life, however, this sort of compensation does not occur.
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