[lbo-talk] Left-neoliberalism: a bold strategy for the year 1999

[Miles Jackson]

On 8/5/2011 9:37 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> The  utter flexibility of the human brain frustrates any attempt to 
> attach a particular behavior to a particular evolved trait.

Here's a wonderful example of brain plasticity.  When infants or 
toddlers suffer massive trauma in one cerebral hemisphere, the brain 
will typically "reroute" the interneural connections in the surviving 
motor cortex so that the child will recover motor control of both the 
left and right sides of the body.  Even with something as basic as motor 
function, there is not a specific area of the left or right motor cortex 
that is rigidly "hardwired" to control a specific part of the body.

Miles