Sign activates the auditory area.

[Linda Lee Lonning]

On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Carolyn L. Ostrander wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Eric Gumpert wrote:
>
> > Alternately, if there were proof that during, say, the performance of spoken
> > English, the visual cortex were activated--that would be further proof that
> > English is a fully developed linguistic system.
> >
> Well, the McGurk effect would seem to point in that direction.
> Language input probably is multi-sensory, so one might predict such a
> result.
>
> It seems possible, though that some of the "auditory" centers are actually
> general linguistic centers.
>
>  Carolyn Ostrander
>
Oh with what "filters" with which we label things... <--- this is supposed
to sound  "poetic"--it's a 2-fer ;)     Linda Lonning