[Daffynition]

The NYT has some more detail

Amazing that brain of ours!

[TexasTransplant]

Slightly off topic...
I wonder which part of the brain processes and visualizes Man Made Global Warming or other delusions Tree Huggers suffer from? Their afflictions may be treatable.

Science is Awesome

[Republican Party Reptile]

evolutionary biology can be pretty amazing. way cool.

[BlueStateBlues]

Sounds like a neighbor of mine who when he drives knocks his own mailbox down about once a year.

[Bon mots]

I like the story of this kid, who went blind as a young baby and created his own form of echolocation. He rides a bike and everything...

The Amazing Ben Underwood

[SunkenCiv]

Even though the primary part of his brain that processes visual information is destroyed, he still has more primitive parts of his brain intact, and these are capable of doing some visual processing.

Yeah, okay.

[lowbridge]

She then told TN to walk down the hall. "We didn't give him information about obstacles or anything. So he was not aware that there were obstacles." So TN walked down the hall, but instead of walking straight ahead, he carefully stepped around each of the obstacles.

Is he collecting disability checks? That would explain it.

;-)

[TigersEye]

Steven Hackley, an associate professor of psychological sciences, says studying patients such as TN will tell scientists about the nature of consciousness.

"The idea is that by comparing the same mental process when it is conscious and when it is not, it will be possible to determine which parts of the brain are essential and how consciousness arises," Hackley says.

Here's a tip. Mind does not arise from the brain.

"...We were like totally amazed," says de Gelder,...

It's nice to see that Valley Girl Speak has not only made it to Switzerland but into a scientist's vernacular. /s

[Kevmo]

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