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Are brains necessary?

Kevin Spencer kspencer at s.psych.uiuc.edu
Wed Mar 26 15:31:11 EST 1997


drgg4 at aol.com (DrGG4) writes:

>I wonder who here is familiar with John Lorber's studies of people with
>virtually no brains? Fully functioning adults with little more than a
>millimeter of cortex and nothing other than huge ventricles beneath that.
>How can this be possible? And why hasn't this attracted any attention in
>the neuroscience community?
>Gary Greenberg

Sounds interesting -- why don't you give us more details.

Kevin
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Kevin Spencer
Cognitive Psychophysiology Laboratory and Beckman Institute
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
kspencer at s.psych.uiuc.edu
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