From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Thu Aug 12 1999 - 10:14:32 MDT
"Michael S. Lorrey" <mike@lorrey.com> writes:
> Timothy Bates wrote:
> >
> > He was brilliant, but hardly working in a vacuum.
>
> Just read an article about his brain, that scientists have found that
> there was an area he was missing in his brain that allowed the part
> responsible for mathematical visualization to grow to twice the normal
> size...
Which area was that? As far as I know, most studies on his brain have
been cellular rather than morphological (he may have hadd a slightly
different number of glial cells; I'll get back to that once I have
finished reading the reviews on the brain effects of enriched
environments, they seem to relate here).
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