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Dolphin brain

TonyJeffs2 tonyjeffs2 at aol.comTonyJ
Thu Jan 28 08:17:20 EST 1999


In article <36aba112.23060755 at news.zedat.fu-berlin.de>,
cijadra at zedat.fu-berlin.de (Cijadrachon) writes:

>
>> Areas of the brain  devoted to movement and dexterity, or to  homeostasis,
>wouldn't effect intelligence.  
>>Parts involved in memory such as the hippocampus probably would.
>>
>>Tony
>
>Having own multiple memory systems of which the hippocampus is part
>does not mean that the sequencer can't think, nor learn alone, nor has
>independent data storing.
>
>A question: Why do you use hippocampus instead of "I (-area[s])" in
>this context?

It seems to fit.  I have a moderate idea what the hippocampus does.  I don't
feel I have a grasp of the reticular formation if that is an example of what
you meant by an "I-area"

Tony



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