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From: "Christopher D. Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <[email protected]>
Subject: [tips] Crockus on the brain
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:54:13 -0400
Apparently there is some education specialist from Flint, MI named Dan Hodgins traveling around the US giving lectures to education groups, claiming that there is an area of the brain called the "Crockus" (which looks a lot like Broca's area -- traditionally thought to be responsible for spoken language) that is four times larger in girls than in boys, and is responsible for the alleged fact that "girls see the details of experiences... boys see the whole but not the details." Has anyone else heard about this? Has he given a lecture near you?
I do not quite understand what Chris is trying to say.Parts of the brain are named after their discoverers,for example Broca and Wericke.Parts of the brain are also named if their shape and function are similar to other objects,for example the amygdala and the
pons. So if there is a dude or dudette out there who wants to name a certain part of the brain,there should be no objection.
Chris has also failed to discrimiunate between speech production area and the comprehensive aspects of language.I suspect that
women may have an advantage in both areas which certainly might imply the utilization of large areas of brain tissue.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
"if two people always agree,one of them is unnecessary"
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