Lavender: Back Talk: Going for Broker

a-ha! this may explain my word confusion. poor little broker.

Lavender: Back Talk: Going for Broker

But, more importantly, what happened was the portion of my brain that neuroscientists now call a broker, failed in its duty of taking the concept and bringing it to the speech center, which would then have blurted out the correct name of that object. (The broker also failed—and this will really irritate my local Board of Realtors—to charge a full 6 percent commission.)

Doctors Hanna and Antonio Damasio, renowned neuroscientists at the University of Iowa, say they’ve found there’s a previously unsuspected middleman in the concept-speech process.

“We find evidence that you don’t go from concepts to words nonstop,” said Hanna Damasio, “There’s an intermediary structure that helps…like a diplomatic broker that is talking to both sides at the same time.”

(the article linked to is a humor article, not a research article. now i must go look up the research.)