Question

After Terry lost a finger in an industrial accident, the area of his somatosensory cortex devoted to receiving input from that finger gradually became very responsive to sensory input from his adjacent fingers. This best illustrates A) lateralization. B) neurogenesis. C) plasticity

Answer 1

Answer:

C) plasticity

Explanation:

Plasticity -

It is the changes the in behavior of an organism , and the morphology and physiology in response to the environment .

The changes may or may not be permanent .

This plasticity involves all the environmental induced changes , like phenological , behavioural , physiological , morphological .

Hence , from the data given in the question , The illustration of the terry finger is plasticity