Equal Access: Science and Students with Sensory Impairments

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Thanks, DOIT, for putting this video together. It was fun to watch several years after the fact!

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I'm particularly interested in investigating how blind people use normally visual brain areas for nonvisual functions, and how the experience of growing up blind may influence the development of higher cognitive abilities such as language and memory. There's so much that we don't currently know about the brain and cognition, and it's exciting to envision the extent to which learning about the experience of blindness can teach us about the human brain's remarkable capacity to change and adapt!

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This is Lindsay from the video. Wow, I almost forgot about having this filmed back when I was in high school! I don't think I'd ever seen the finished product! :)

Just an update for anyone who's curious: I'm currently doing cognitive neuroscience research at MIT after studying cognitive science at Brown. Eventually I plan to get my Ph.D. in some field related to language cognition and brain development.