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How to Overcome Inhibitor Neuronal Loss

The only explanation, because I had the same question as you, is that's novel, that's new. Those are new combinations of sounds. Why wouldn't that activate your inhibitory neurons to just stand down, right? And the best I could come up with, this is just me editorializing, he'll admit it. Is that those new novel sounds are still following the same neural pathways that say English does. It's like the neural pathways you established for language, right? The thing is so well worn that the inhibitory neurons, like, it's going to take a lot for me to let you fire anymore, because you know this stuff.

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