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Brain size and IQ
HARRY R. ERWIN (herwin@mason2.gmu.edu)
10 Sep 1996 14:55:16 GMT
An interesting thing we seem to see in bats is that early auditory
processing has not expanded to the degree that would be expected if
echolocation was substituting for vision. It's much different than
prestriate visual processing, with much less of the afference seeming to
come through to the cortex. Yet bats maneuver acrobatically in auditory
scenes fully as complex as the visual scenes we handle. That suggests
nature is much more creative at solving these problems than we usually
give her credit for.
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Harry Erwin, Internet: herwin@gmu.edu, Web Page: http://osf1.gmu.edu/~herwin
49 year old PhD student in computational neuroscience ("how bats do it" 8)
and lecturer for CS 211 (data structures and advanced C++)
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