Cole Was Born with Nonfunctioning Hands and Must Use His

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Multiple Choice

Cole was born with nonfunctioning hands and must use his feet for most tasks that are typically done with one's hands. Considering experience-expectant plasticity, the MOST likely thing that will happen to the area of Cole's cortex that would normally process sensory information from the hands is that the area will

• A) reorganize to process sensory information from his feet.
• B) atrophy as a result of synaptic pruning.
• C) interfere with the functioning of nearby areas of the brain.
• D) disintermediate.

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