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[In Context] Journey in an unknown country

20:12 EDT 10 Oct 2017 | The Lancet

In a garden, an old woman who has experienced a stroke approaches tentatively some snow on the ground. When prompted to define what she sees, at first she is unable to give it a name. Yet, when she takes some in her hand, the word “snow” suddenly materialises in her mind. The woman then tries to explain what is happening in her mind: “If I pick this…stuff up in my hand, then…I know its name. I didn't have to pick it up to know…what it was.”

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