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There are lots of examples. Phonemes for language and are a very common example of things that can't be learned easily or at all later in life. But huge change
by lupire 2y ago
There are lots of examples. Phonemes for language and are a very common example of things that can't be learned easily or at all later in life.
But huge changes like a major color might overcome that. Humans learn to recognize new major objects they've never seen before.
- wizzwizz4 2y agoHumans can learn to recognise new sensory modalities, too (see paragraph 4 of doi:10.3389/fnhum.2019.00443's introduction) – but only if there's hardware that responds to them. The question is whether the visual cortex is capable of making the distinctions. If colourblindness glasses (e.g. EnChroma®) work for you, then I suppose the answer is trivially "yes, because it already does" – and we should expect gene therapy to be useful. If there are people for whom those glasses don't do anything at all, I'd be more cautious.