Christopher D
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From: Christopher D. Green
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2007 5:15 PM
Subject: Re: [tips] Crockus on the brain
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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,
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Christopher D. Green
But if the brains are wired differently,one argue that size may not matter
but intricacies do.A few ago I carried lots of vinyl albums to a DJ gig,now
i can get all my music on an ipod.So i can say that the ipod covers more
territory despite its size.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
"when everybody thinks alike,nobody is
thinking."
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