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

Denis Heidtmann denis.heidtmann at gmail.com
Thu Dec 24 23:10:52 UTC 2015


As was sited a few messages ago,
http://www.nsc.org/learn/NSC-Initiatives/Pages/distracted-driving-hands-free-is-not-risk-free-infographic.aspx



On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 11:06 AM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>
wrote:

> <Moved to PLUG-talk.>
>
> 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.
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