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Humans use this talent to find their car in the car park, and remember how to drive their cars through a maze of city streets to get home after work. (While
inside a shopping precinct, can you point in a "bee-line" to directly where you car is?). We symbolically translate locations into maps, pointing with our
fingers, and using location and distance names. To imitate the bee's symbolic dance, we might use symbolic language: "You'll find a very good coffee house
if you go that way over three roads and turn left."
Music
Music is an extension of sound talents used for animal communication, such as bird songs.
Birds must be able to analyse the pitch, melodies, intervals, rhythm and harmonies of bird songs to determine if the song is of the same species, if the song is
a territorial or mating call, and which individual is singing. Animals as diverse as humpback whales, parrots, and dolphins have intricate sound patterns for
communication.
Humans add more complexity with left-brain symbolism that can analyze music into chromatic scales, the "key of D major", choruses, four-part harmony,
etc.
Body Senses
Body senses includes touch, pain, and limb position. Because the brain is "blind," it must use these senses to learn about the body carrying it. One important
sense is "proprioception," which uses sensors in the joints to tell where a limb is (Close your eyes and then try to keep track of your arm as you move it
around). Humans use this proprioception sense when doing numerous activities, including sports, dance and musical instruments. If this area is weak, then a
piano player will reach out with his arm incorrectly and hit the wrong notes on the keyboard, and a gymnast wouldn't know where her limbs were very well.
Memory
Memory processes are not well understood, but we know that the location for many memories are in the temporal lobe. The right temporal lobe has mostly
visual memories and non-verbal sounds (bird songs, your pet dog, music, etc.).
Face Memory is so important that the brain has a special place for it, at the bottom of the right temporal lobe. As a child, you were exposed to many faces,
and your brain learned an "average" face. Your brain remembers individuals by how they differ from the average. In fact, the brain defines a "beautiful" face
as an "average" face because it has no deviations or defects.
Animals developed this feature to tell friend from foe, and identify family members. Humans see each other as individuals but may not identify cows well,
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Emotional Memory is a special feature of the front of the temporal lobe. It stores emotional tags on memories as a way of determining the importance of the