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Lewicki took this as evidence for the theory that human speech evolved to make best use of the existing encoding scheme of the auditory system.9
Grace Lindsay • Models of the Mind
Lewicki took this as evidence for the theory that human speech evolved to make best use of the existing encoding scheme of the auditory system.9
Grace Lindsay • Models of the Mind
But we can also ask the opposite question: Are there regions that are more active among bad readers and whose activity decreases as one learns to read? The answer is positive: in illiterates, the brain’s responses to faces are more intense. The better we read, the more this activity decreases in the left hemisphere, at the exact place in the cortex... See more
Stanislas Dehaene • How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine …
"Why does the brain need billions of neurons to process 10 bits/second? Why can we only think about one thing at a time?"
by @jieyusz and @mameister4 @Caltech @NeuroCellPress https://t.co/5QMHIXoX4H https://t.co/7CtNlXCPZE
Consider: millions of years ago our antecedents gave a massive sacrifice of their left hemisphere.
We lost a tremendous amount of short term memory and replaced it with Broca’s, Wernicke & the phonological loop.
But why?
So we... See more
Brian Roemmelex.comThe Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition
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linguists today are unearthing more and more evidence that, although language is only possible because of the way our brains have developed, it’s not a specialized “organ” as Pinker and Chomsky claim.