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...feel or even support verbal memory. When signals from the skin or muscles bombard the motor cortex or the somatosensory cortex (which processes touch), the brain expands the area that is wired to move, say, the fingers. In this sense, the very structure of our brain--the relative size of different regions, the strength of connections between them, even their functions--reflects the lives we have led. Like sand on a beach, the brain bears the footprints of the decisions we have made, the skills we have learned, the actions we have taken...
...dictate that one cluster of neurons will process signals from the eye and another cluster will move the fingers of the right hand, then they'll do that and nothing else until the day you die. There was good reason for lavishly illustrated brain books to show the function, size and location of the brain's structures in permanent...
...acres, the complex is almost twice the size of Harvard’s Allston property...
...ties to Grinnell have remained strong. Since 1998, he has served as a trustee of the college, a school whose student body is just 1/13 the size of Harvard?...
CORRECTION The Howard Hughes Medical Institute boasted an endowment of nearly $16 billion in the 2006 fiscal year, according to an HHMI spokeswoman, placing it only behind Harvard and Yale in endowment size. The Jan. 19 news article " 'Iowa Values' for Mass. Hall?" reported the institute's endowment size in fiscal year...