Word: lobe
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Some of the sound effects are inspired. The opening scene, which meshes the sound of rain and television static, is incredible; the industrial music that booms over the Lobe's sound system as Bradley shoves his finger into Shelly's mouth at the end of the first act is perfect...
Using an MRI scanner, Hanna Damasio has examined the living brains of hundreds of patients, and she and her husband have identified regions they think may serve as convergence zones in the brain's left hemisphere. An area in the temporal lobe pulls together information about the names of objects, animals and people, for instance, while another area in the frontal cortex appears to act as the nexus for verbs. Yet a third oversees the task of assembling nouns and verbs into sentences...
...around 40,000 B.P. That was about the time when Cro-Magnons, Homo sapiens, reached Ice Age Europe, having migrated from the Middle East. Some experts think the Cro-Magnons brought a weapon that made Neanderthals an evolutionary has-been: a more advanced brain, equipped with a large frontal lobe "wired" for associative thinking. For art, at its root, is association-the power to make one thing stand for and symbolize another, to create the agreements by which some marks on a surface denote, say, an animal, not just to the markmaker but to others...
...left the courtroom. She later told him, "I know you had to say all that, but I just couldn't stand reliving those terrible times." Says Pincus: "I believe he was abused -- beaten and burned." As for brain damage, tests administered in 1990 indicate that Shaw's right parietal lobe is damaged. That is the area of the brain that controls how we interpret the behavior of others. Shaw's frontal lobes are also atrophied...
...think the hallucinations and delusions of schizophrenia reflect a physical deterioration of the victim's brain. Now comes a new study from Harvard that strengthens that theory. Magnetic-resonance imaging of 15 schizophrenic and 15 normal men shows that the former have less gray matter in the left temporal lobe, a region believed to be important to language processing. The degree of shrinkage matched the severity of thought disorder -- implying that while a cure for the disease is nowhere close, scientists may at least be zeroing in on the cause...