I’m reading Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks, and came upon this quote:
We are a linguistic species — we turn to language to express whatever we are thinking, and it is usually there for us instantly. But for those with aphasia, the inability to communicate verbally may be almost unbearably frustrating [...]
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