Or it may not. But it kinda seems like it.
(I love this stuff. The sooner we figure out how the brain works, the sooner we can go about creating a computer to house our consciousness, the sooner we can get on with the singularity already.)
(Never mind that it’ll never work 🙂
BRAIN PIC: CENTER FOR BRAIN AND COGNITION, UCSD
Brain Region Linked to Metaphor Comprehension
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran of the University of California at San Diego and his colleagues tested four patients who had experienced damage to the left angular gyrus region of their brains…
The angular gyrus is more developed in humans than in other primates and is located in the brain at the junction of areas specialized for processing touch, hearing and vision. “While it would be premature to conclude that the angular gyrus is the ‘metaphor center’ of the human brain,” Ramachandran says, “we suggest that the evolution of the dominant angular gyrus contributed enormously to the evolution of many quintessentially human abilities, including metaphorical–and other abstract–thinking.” He will present the results on Friday at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society in Los Angeles.
