Peter suffers damage to his left frontal lobe and loses the ability to speak, although he can still understand speech
Despite the permanence of this damage, he is able to recover some of his speech due to the ability of other parts of the brain to take over lost function. This phenomenon is known by neuroscientists as
a. flexibility.
b. adaptiveness.
c. plasticity.
d. compensation.
e. homeostasis.
c. plasticity.
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