I had 2 questions from students the other day that I could not answer hopefully you folks can help.
1) This is an old one to which I've never found a satisfactory answer: Is there an adaptive significance to the contralateral organization of the brain. If so, what is it? Or is it just a peculiarity of neural development.
2) In Broca's (and Wernicke's) aphasia is there any effect on mathematical ability? The student really asked the question because math & music are often spoken of as "universal languages." I said that music was not affected and I suspected that math was not either and that in this context (i.e., music & math) the term "language" is more metaphorical than actual. Was I right????
Ed
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Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D.
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