[PLUG-TALK] [PLUG] What do you call a portable computer that ...

[John Jason Jordan]

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On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 08:12:59 -0800
Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtmann at gmail.com> dijo:

>"The activity in the area of the brain that processes moving images
>decreases by up to 1/3 when listening to talking on a phone."  

The quotes above indicate that you are citing someone. I would be
interested in the reference. 

My interest is because psycholinguists have determined that reading
involves the image area of the brain - more or less the angular gyrus,
located toward the back of the brain, in the left hemisphere, a region
some distance from the other areas where language processing occurs.
This area is involved in spatial recognition, especially shapes. While
most of human language ability is hard wired through evolution, reading
is not. After all, writing systems were developed only about 5,000
years ago, and hundreds of millions of us are still illiterate
worldwide, so reading ability is not from evolutionary processes.
Instead we use neuronal recycling to engage the shape recognition
neurons to process characters into language.