[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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. Yes, Michael, but the point is that there is no such dude, there is no such area, and there is no such function. Apart from that, all is fine. > 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. I didn't fail to discriminate between anything. I simply noted that Broca's area has traditionally been thought to be involved in speech production. Women "may" have an advantage (we can speculate as we please, providing we don't regard it as evidence) but, so far as I know, there is no reliable size difference between the sexes in Broca's area, and if there were one, it CERTAINLY wouldn't be a four-fold difference (in this or any other area of the brain). But I am beginning to see how this fellow, Hodgins, has been as successful as he has been. Must have been reading Barnum.
Regards, -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-5115 ex. 66164 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ====================================== ---
