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Who needs a brain to speak Russian?
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Who needs a brain to speak Russian?
Well, this is quite unique....
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Re: Who needs a brain to speak Russian?
Amazing case, but not totally unique - I did a Google search on "half brain functionality" and found several pages with references to articles about this phenomenon. I'm just wondering why it is so hard to learn Russian with a complete brain if you can do it with an incomplete one...
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Re: Who needs a brain to speak Russian?
It probably mostly depends on which part of the brain is being damaged, and the person's age, which greatly affects the brain's ability to adapt to changes like this.
As a tangentially related example, people who are born blind have superior listening comprehension (able to comprehend sped up speech) compared to sighted people or those who became blind later in life. This is suspected to be because the brain adapted parts of the visual cortex [1].
1. https://bmcneurosci.biomedcentral.com/a ... 2202-14-74
As a tangentially related example, people who are born blind have superior listening comprehension (able to comprehend sped up speech) compared to sighted people or those who became blind later in life. This is suspected to be because the brain adapted parts of the visual cortex [1].
1. https://bmcneurosci.biomedcentral.com/a ... 2202-14-74
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