Re: Psi and Science Fiction (actually Albert Einstein)

Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
12 Aug 1999 18:14:32 +0200

"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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