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January 15, 2016
Q. What are some of the true oddities of the human voice?
A. There are stroke victims who lose their ability to speak but who can still sing, says Jim Sullivan in Discover magazine. The theory is that singing is more dominated by the right hemisphere, speaking by the left (the National Center for Voice and Speech). “It's also why the singers Carly Simon, Mel Tillis and Bill Withers can ply their trade with no problems, but sometimes stutter in conversation.”
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