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Thread #44448 Message #654164
Posted By: Mrrzy
20-Feb-02 - 04:05 PM
Thread Name: Sound Of Pear-Shaped Tones
Subject: RE: Sound Of Pear-Shaped Tones
That is very interesting, Don Firth. I know of recent neurological evidence that Broca's area, the part of the motor area thought to be responsible for speech production, is really much more involved with overriding the automatics involved in breathing so that speech CAN be controlled, than it is with the actual voluntary control itself, so that would make a lot of sense. The motions involved in speech and song are so complex they are automated as you could never do it on purpose fast enough, as with any other overlearned behavior. Way cool. Yet, I knew the phrase as a child, and I remail certain that it's FROM something. Ah, but what, the deponent sayeth not, nor doth anyone else so far!