Stuart McKelvie wrote: > Thanks, Stephen, for the reference. > > And for the record re: Penfield himself. > > When he stimulated the temporal lobe of SOME patients (actually a fairly > small number), he elicited what the patient reported as vivid memories (and > also some perceptual distortions). Some of the memories were indeed auditory > but some were also visual. > > Penfield, W. (1959). The interpretive cortex. Science, 129, 1719-1725. > > And some were olfactory. (Remember the Canadian Heritage Minute: "Burnt toast, Dr. Penfield, I smell burnt toast!")
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