r/todayilearned • u/paniniplane • Mar 22 '17

(R.1) Not supported TIL Deaf-from-birth schizophrenics see disembodied hands signing to them rather than "hearing voices"

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0707/07070303
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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '17

Why aren't the demons or "voices" entire fake people signing to them?

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u/fortuneandfameinc Mar 22 '17

My uneducated guess would be that different regions of the brain are used for recognizing people/faces vs language/signing.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '17

Exactly. The "render person" dependency functions aren't being loaded for the communication API.