Mike May, Who Went Blind at Age Three, Had Surgery

Multiple Choice

Mike May, who went blind at age three, had surgery to restore his sight when he reached adulthood. However, although he had functioning eyes, it took him several years to learn how to "see" again. Your text speculates that this is because Mike's __________.

A) somatosensory cortex compensated for his loss of vision and was causing an overload once Mike's eyes functioned again
B) frontal lobes developed social filtering and would only gradually allow him to take in new, unfamiliar visual information
C) visual cortex likely took on other roles after he lost his sight and therefore had to rewire for seeing
Again
D temporal poles never had the experience of appropriately identifying visual information from his
) environment and were slow to learn this novel task