Spiking Phineas Gage: A Neurocomputational Theory of Cognitive
... Phineas Gage was the foreman of a railway construction gang working for the contractors preparing the bed for the Rutland and Burlington railroad near Cavendish, VT. On September 13, 1848, an accidental explosion of a charge he had set blew his tamping iron through his head. Most of the front part o ...
... Phineas Gage was the foreman of a railway construction gang working for the contractors preparing the bed for the Rutland and Burlington railroad near Cavendish, VT. On September 13, 1848, an accidental explosion of a charge he had set blew his tamping iron through his head. Most of the front part o ...
More Doom for Descartes Reports that some scientists believe that
... Two remarkable things happened to Phineas in fall, 1848. The first was that a tamping iron, 43 inches long, one inch in diameter, pierced his brain in a construction explosion. The tapered metal rod tore through his left cheek, exited via the top of his skull, and landed more than a hundred feet awa ...
... Two remarkable things happened to Phineas in fall, 1848. The first was that a tamping iron, 43 inches long, one inch in diameter, pierced his brain in a construction explosion. The tapered metal rod tore through his left cheek, exited via the top of his skull, and landed more than a hundred feet awa ...
11_16_15- Day 1 - Kenwood Academy High School
... you are digesting food which division of the nervous system are you using? Parasympathetic Division ...
... you are digesting food which division of the nervous system are you using? Parasympathetic Division ...
Part 1: The Strange Tale of Phineas Gage
... Part 1: The Strange Tale of Phineas Gage (the beginning of modern brain science) Go to: http://brainconnection.positscience.com/topics/?main=fa/phineas-gage Read about one of the most famous cases in the history of science: the amazing tale of Phineas Gage, and answer the questions below. You will n ...
... Part 1: The Strange Tale of Phineas Gage (the beginning of modern brain science) Go to: http://brainconnection.positscience.com/topics/?main=fa/phineas-gage Read about one of the most famous cases in the history of science: the amazing tale of Phineas Gage, and answer the questions below. You will n ...
Phineas Gage (Lobes)
... The Case of Phineas Gage A metal tamping rod impaled Gage through his left cheek and top of his forehead. Minutes later Gage was sitting up and talking. Months later Gage returned to work. Although having lost his frontal lobe, Gage showed no signs of a changed mental condition. However Gage’s ...
... The Case of Phineas Gage A metal tamping rod impaled Gage through his left cheek and top of his forehead. Minutes later Gage was sitting up and talking. Months later Gage returned to work. Although having lost his frontal lobe, Gage showed no signs of a changed mental condition. However Gage’s ...
Phineas Gage
Phineas P. Gage (1823 – May 21, 1860) was an American railroad construction foreman remembered for his improbable survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe, and for that injury's reported effects on his personality and behavior over the remaining twelve years of his life—effects sufficiently profound (for a time at least) that friends saw him as ""no longer Gage"".Long known as ""the American Crowbar Case""—once termed ""the case which more than all others is calculated to excite our wonder, impair the value of prognosis, and even to subvert our physiological doctrines""—Phineas Gage influenced nineteenth-century discussion about the mind and brain, particularly debate on cerebral localization, and was perhaps the first case to suggest that damage to specific parts of the brain might induce specific personality changes.Gage is a fixture in the curricula of neurology, psychology, and related disciplines (see Neuroscience), ""a living part of the medical folklore"" frequently mentioned in books and scientific papers; he even has a minor place in popular culture. Despite this celebrity, the body of established fact about Gage and what he was like (before or after his injury) is small, which has allowed ""the fitting of almost any theory [desired] to the small number of facts we have""—Gage acting as a ""Rorschach inkblot"" in which proponents of various conflicting theories of the brain were able to find support for their views. Historically, published accounts of Gage (including scientific ones) have almost always severely exaggerated and distorted his behavioral changes, frequently contradicting the known facts.A report of Gage's physical and mental condition shortly before his death implies that his most serious mental changes were temporary, so that in later life, he was far more functional, and socially far better adapted, than in the years immediately following his accident. A social recovery hypothesis suggests that his employment as a stagecoach driver in Chile provided daily structure allowing him to regain lost social and personal skills.