What happens in our brain when…

carter Thanks to more refined brain imag­ing tech­niques we now have a bet­ter under­stand­ing of what hap­pens in the “black box” of our brains.

See an illus­tra­tion, con­tained in the great book Map­ping the Mind by Rita Carter.You see what typ­i­cal­ly hap­pens (lat­er­al view, frontal lobe/ fore­head to the left, the back to the right) when we are

A: read­ing acti­vates part of the visu­al cortex

B: lis­ten­ing to speech makes the audi­to­ry cor­tex light up

C: think­ing about words makes Bro­ca’s area light up

D: think­ing about words and speak­ing gen­er­ates wide­spread activity

 

Have a great week­end and lots of good, wide­spread, brain activ­i­ty — now, just in case you take this to an extreme, please notice it says “think­ing about words”, not sim­ply “say­ing words”…

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