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Call it the Ray Charles Effect: a young child who is blind develops a keen ability to hear things that others cannot. Now NEI-funded researchers at the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University have overturned conventional wisdom, showing the brains of adult mice can also be re-wired to compensate for a temporary vision loss by improving their hearing

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