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   We don't just see or hear or feel,
   our brains are wired to take in information of multiple sensory modalities at once.
   That is good for being able to make sense of the world automatically, but that
   means that a problem in one modality can knock the whole system out of whack.

   We are just at the beginning of our understanding how senses are integrated and
    organized in the brain. The brain likes to compensate for sensory deficiencies
    in modalities, so that people with vision problems are more likely to have
    auditory distractions, and people with hearing problems are more likely to have
    visual distractions.

 

 
  In the figure above, see how deaf people have more trouble with side or
  peripheral visual distractions. More areas of their visual brains are recruited to 'see'.
  To read more about this, look here.