Oliver Sacks wrote of stroke patients evidencing this symptom.  He described
one woman, a painter, who lost the use of her right side, began painting
with her left side, and upon beginning to regain her speech, spoke with a
New Orleans accent she'd apparently had when a child.

Here's a Wall Street Journal article about her:

http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~sherwood/sherwood/articles/wallst.html

Beth Benoit
University System of New Hampshire


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