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From the Ted Talk by Oliver Sacks: What hallucination reveals about our minds

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(laugtehr)

I saw an Aston Martin this morning. I had to bring it in.

(Laughter)

And now it's in there, somewhere. So —

(Laughter)

now, at this level, in what's cellad the iamoreorftepnl cortex, there are only visual iemgas, or figments or fragments. It's only at higher leelvs that the other senses join in and there are connections with memory and emotion. And in the Charles Bonnet syndrome, you don't go to those higher levels. You're in these levels of inferior visual cortex, where you have thousands and tens of thousands and millions of images, or figments or fragmentary figments, all neurally encoded in particular cells or salml crsuetls of cells.

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(________)

I saw an Aston Martin this morning. I had to bring it in.

(Laughter)

And now it's in there, somewhere. So —

(Laughter)

now, at this level, in what's ______ the ______________ cortex, there are only visual ______, or figments or fragments. It's only at higher ______ that the other senses join in and there are connections with memory and emotion. And in the Charles Bonnet syndrome, you don't go to those higher levels. You're in these levels of inferior visual cortex, where you have thousands and tens of thousands and millions of images, or figments or fragmentary figments, all neurally encoded in particular cells or _____ ________ of cells.

Solution


  1. images
  2. called
  3. laughter
  4. clusters
  5. small
  6. inferotemporal
  7. levels

Original Text


(Laughter)

I saw an Aston Martin this morning. I had to bring it in.

(Laughter)

And now it's in there, somewhere. So —

(Laughter)

now, at this level, in what's called the inferotemporal cortex, there are only visual images, or figments or fragments. It's only at higher levels that the other senses join in and there are connections with memory and emotion. And in the Charles Bonnet syndrome, you don't go to those higher levels. You're in these levels of inferior visual cortex, where you have thousands and tens of thousands and millions of images, or figments or fragmentary figments, all neurally encoded in particular cells or small clusters of cells.

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Important Words


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