Until fairly recently, scientists believed that the information gathered by each of the senses — touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste — was processed in separate areas of the brain. Research is now revealing, however, that there is a complex interaction between the senses in the brain—an interaction that enables us to understand the world in a unified way. Continued at http://www.sfn.org/content/AboutSFN1/NewsReleases/am2003_interaction.html ******************** http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.thinking http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=alt.thinking&nosubgroups=1
