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Originally Posted by BlackEleven
They put the guy in a cat scan machine and had him do math problems. When he was calculating the areas of his brain that are usually associated with sight and not mathematically reasoning were active. The typical math centres of the brain were not active at all.
Pretty neat stuff.
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One of the best key-note speakers I ever saw was when I was in Jr. High eons ago and it turns out he's the head of the english faculty for some college and the "linguistics" part of his brain was damaged at birth and had never functioned.