martes, 21 de septiembre de 2010

PHINEAS GAGE

1. Phineas P. Gage is a very famous person known by all psychology students. He was a survivor of severe brain damage. His face was trespassed by an iron bar or a tamping iron. After the accident he fully recovered from his injuries, but after the accident people noticed that his personality changed due to the frontal lobe damage. After this psychologists discovered the brain localization.
2. Phineas P. Gage was a foreman of a railway construction so he was using a tamping iron to move explosives around and an accidental spark made everything explode, then his tamping iron entered through his left cheek and then through his eye socket and finally went out through the front part of his brain, a tragic accident.
3. As a result to his severe injuries Phineas Gage survived but he had a drastic change in his personality. Before the accident people liked to work with him and be close to him, but after this he became irritable and had a very unpleasant personality.
4. After this accident Phineas was involved in psychologists and other scientists learned about how we worked with different parts of the brain.
5.  Brain localization is a term used to explain what the different parts of the brain are assigned to do specific jobs. Parts as the occipital lobe or the temporal lobe have different jobs.
6. Brain lateralization is explained like this: the brain is divided into two hemispheres so this means that specific tasks are just done in one side of the brain. Example: the left side controls the right side of your body and vice versa.





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