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Hearing metaphors activates brain regions involved in sensory experience Posted: 03 Feb 2012 03:26 PM PST New brain imaging research reveals that a region of the brain important for sensing texture through touch, the parietal operculum, is also activated when someone listens to a sentence with a textural metaphor. The same region is not activated when a similar sentence expressing the meaning of the metaphor is heard.

Just another pretty face: The neural basis of prosopagnosia Posted: 01 Feb 2012 09:07 AM PST Scientists have uncovered new insight into a condition in which people are unable to recognize faces.

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