[percy-l] Brain region involved with metaphor comprehensiondiscovered

Karl M. Terrell kterrell at sheastokes.com
Mon Jun 6 17:20:33 EDT 2005


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I wonder how adept those with damaged "left angular gyrus" are at
figuring out similes?

Have any of the studies on the ability of apes to use language and
symbols found any evidence of ability to understand simple similes?

Do monkeys ever laugh at our jokes?


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From: Henry P. Mills [mailto:wpercy2 at ibiblio.org] 
Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 6:09 PM
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Subject: [percy-l] Brain region involved with metaphor
comprehensiondiscovered



> From: Wade Riddick <riddick at mail.la.utexas.edu>
> Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 02:02:42 -0500
> To: Walker Percy List <percy-l at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Brain region involved with metaphor comprehension discovered
> 
> They discovered a key region of the brain involved with understanding 
> metaphor.
> 
> 
<http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=00
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1D-E7E3-1294-A7E383414B7F0000>



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