Question

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

Answer 1

Answer: Option (d) is correct

Explanation:

According to question, Cole has non- functioning hands from time of birth and because of that his feet perform the functioning that should be performed through hands.

Reorganization of the sensory information will proceed for the feet through sensory information of hands so that neurons and sensory signal can get restructured to perform the task of hands.

Other options are incorrect because feet function instead of hand functioning through sensory information does not operates through interface near brain,dis-intermediate and atrophy .Thus, the correct option is option(d).