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Comment author: timtyler 10 July 2011 01:03:17AM 2 points [-]

I'm not at all convinced that developing ways of "thinking without words" is at all productive.

I have the opposite testimony. The brain is very visual. Audio processing has pretty narrow bandwidth by comparison. It pays to use your brain's GPU.

Comment author: nazgulnarsil 11 July 2011 12:44:11AM 1 point [-]

language is conceptual and not auditory reliant.

Comment author: timtyler 11 July 2011 09:23:23AM -1 points [-]

It is all tied in with audio processing. That is why language is serial, for instance.

Comment author: nazgulnarsil 11 July 2011 09:31:26AM 1 point [-]

reading is serial too. I don't actually have any expertise in this area but it seems like hearing and language shouldn't necessarily involve the same part of the brain.

Comment author: Houshalter 13 April 2015 08:12:11AM 0 points [-]

By your logic deaf people taught sign language should be geniuses. Language is entirely separate from audio processing, that's just how we communicate.

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