An analog radio is probably the best case scenario for lesion study. The main purpose of the radio is signal processing, which is done in serial with not many i

An analog radio is probably the best case scenario for lesion study. The main purpose of the radio is signal processing, which is done in serial with not many inter-communicating parts. In fact I think it should be possible for biologists to repair a radio. The main discovery these biologists have to make is that the signal is encoded in electrical voltage, they would then be able to measure the input/output voltage of each discrete component and come to an understanding of the signal processing pipeline. I had an undergrad electronic design course that was exactly this. A digital radio would be much harder, since the signal processing is done in software.