Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME supplied a dramatic account that man can learn to use the other half of his brain 18 years ago, at least to the extent that motor loss can be replaced by conscious application of other parts of the brain...
...well-established physiological dominance of the left hemisphere of the brain had been transferred through training to the contralateral side, rendering possible the execution of an exceptionally differentiated performance of great complexity that involved maximal demands upon mental acuity as well as visual and muscular skill...
Though Rosa's brain-wave pattern changes when she is reading with her fingers, neurologists have not yet been able to find any connection between her strange faculty and her epilepsy. The Russian experts can only assume that Rosa Kuleshova has in her fingertips a network of fine nerve endings that are sensitive to light...
...when it is not busy at its primary job, it does extra duty making out the payroll and billing advertisers. Much simpler is the Linasec machine made by Compugraphic Corp. of Brookline. Mass., which is not too proud to ask help from that cheap, old-fashioned computer, the human brain...
...solve this problem, it stops and calls for help by flashing a light. A human operator comes to its rescue, takes a look at the word and presses a key that hyphenates it properly. Then Linasec races ahead until it meets another problem beyond the capacity of its simple brain. A single human operator can take care of several Linasecs, each of which. with one intervention for each five lines, justifies 23 newspaper columns per hr. Cost of each Linasec...