Brain Damage Case Reveals Mind’s Filing System — “A woman who could not tell you whether an
orange is orange has led to new insights into how the brain organizes its
thoughts. Researchers say her case illustrates how the brain files away
the different details of individual objects so that we can know them
inside and out.” The punchline is that it appears that the attributes of an object — its color, size, shape, function, etc. — are stored in distinctive places. Here’s the abstract. Nature Neuroscience
