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Eve Marder on the Crucial Resilience of Neurons

The Joy of x

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Is Your Mouth Like a Crab?

A motor system is anything that moves that involves muscles to produce motion. So i like the analogy to mouth. I find it a little easier to think about a mouth, since i associate the stomach with digestion of food. A random association has nothing to do withit. For you to move your mouth, you have to move many, many different muscles. And to create speech sounds,you have to organize a large numberof movements.

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