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>From: harwood@umiacs.umd.edu (David Harwood)
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Subject: Re: Scaled up slug brains
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Date: 18 Dec 91 00:21:13 GMT
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In article <12773@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:
>I never represented any such thing.  But if you look at an ape
>brain, you will find that talking to the ape will activate large
>sections of its brain too.  All this says is that the brain has
>enormous interconnectivity.  It is when you study lesions in
>discrete places that you find out what parts of the brain are
>really needed for language.  The other areas may get activated,
>but the language can proceed without them if they are ablated.
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Call up NIH's center on stroke disorders, or McLean research institute
in Boston, or NYU Medical School's neuroscience project involving
special NMR imaging. (If you excise 60% of your left hemisphere,
which is involved in language processing (among other things),
except for areas B and W, you will not "proceed" as normal except
to post to this newsgroup. Also, apes do not respond to novel verbal
expressions with anything like attention, unless you are chewing
on their banana. Infant children, on the other hand, will watch you
talk and babble to themselves all day long ;-)


