The adult brain is more malleable than previously thought, according to researchers from the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya. They trained a 50-year-old man, blind from birth, to ‘see’ by ear, and found that neural circuits in his brain formed so-called topographic maps—a type of brain organization previously thought to emerge only in infancy. This finding reported recently in NeuroImage, sheds new light on the brain’s ability for change and holds promise for helping people restore lost function, for example, after a stroke.