Taiwan Trip report 1

[rachelmanija]

I have very little to report as I arrived late - very late - two hours late last night, my flight having been delayed in Tokyo. If I'd known the flight would be delayed, I would not have eaten the disgusting pizza served by American Airlines and instead gotten some ramen at the airport in Tokyo

Comments

[tool_of_satan]

Your recollection of Broca's Area is correct.

I look forward to further trip reports. One of these days I need to go somewhere other than North America and Europe...

[shweta_narayan]

Er. Well. That's the pop sci understanding, anyway, which is fine except that it's badly wrong :)

Broca's aphasia is a severe impairment of language *production*. Not comprehension, and not necessarily communication, as shown by Chuck Goodwin (whose father, though severely aphasic, communicated with subtlety and clarity with people who knew him, knew he wasn't stupid, and had some shared context to work from).

Broca's area is the brain bit they thought was responsible for language production, cause it was the bit shared by both the patients Broca looked at (who had Broca's aphasia; and one of them had some sort of degenerative dementia too and half his brain was gone). Thus, commonly considered an area regulating language, yes

[tool_of_satan]

Hey, no fair using actual expertise in an online discussion!

More seriously, thanks for the correction.

[shweta_narayan]

Manija Broca is an awesome character name, though.

[shavenwarthog]

"He turned out to be a surgeon.. viewing color high definition videos of a laparoscopic operation" made me burst out laughing! haha awesome.

man I wish my name was "Manija Broca" instead of "John"... hmm, maybe that'll be my new year's eve announcement, a new name. ha!

[auriaephiala]

I have that edition of "Watch the Wall, My Darling", too. One of Jane Aiken Hodge's better books.

[dichroic]

Welcome to Taiwan. If you've got any free time in Taipei (that you'd like not to be free) wanna do dinner?

[rachelmanija]

Thanks! I'll let you know if I do, but I'm actually about to take off for a different area, and then for Xian.