I read your study and another one where cats were given eyepatches for two weeks when birthed.. Well after the eyepatch was removed, the cat had little or no vision in that eye, but spectacular vision in the other one. The patched eye 'circuitry' got linked up with the other eye. Most Children who had labotomy's developed into normal adults, with the one half of the brain working for the both sides. Most adults, however, became fried after them. So yes, I believe the brain is extremly malleable, but mostly only to a certain age. That's why most of us can't remember our childhood very clearly, our brains were being 'manufactured.'
This is all in a book i read, "The mind and the Brain." Good book, but a bit to detailed in the vocabulary.