Phineas Gage
Phineas Gage was an american construction foreman famous for surviving to an accident where his brain suffered severe damage. His experience was useful for understanding the relation between personality and the function of the front parts of the brain. One 13 of September of 1848, an explosion made his tamping iron pass through his head blewing his eye, affecting his front part of the brain, and leaving a hole in his head. After this serious injury his personality changed in a drastic way. Before the accident Gage was an intelligent and efficient person, who had good social relations in his work. Time later after this event, he became an irreberent and fitful person, who irritate his work partners.
Gage accident was very useful in the study of psychology and medicine, after the event psychologist conclude that the front part of the brain works with personality, and an accident which affects this part may cause changes in a person attitude and way of relating with others. These studies led to the idea of brain localization. Brain localization idea, states that each part of the brain is in charge of a different task and has different functions. Also the brain study helped to understand and develope the concept of brain lateralization. This concept divides the brain into two similar but with different functions hemispheres. The left hemisphere deals with actual facts and things such as concepts, structure, discipline and rules, time sequences, mathematics, categorizing, logic and rationality and deductive reasoning, knowledge, details, definitions, planning and goals, words, productivity and efficiency, science and technology, stability, physical activity, and the right side of the body. The right hemisphere includes intuition, feelings and sensitivity, emotions, daydreaming and visualizing, creativity,color, awareness, first impressions, rhythm, spontaneity and impulsiveness, the physical senses, risk-taking, flexibility and variety, learning by experience, relationships, play and sports, introversion, humor, and the left side of the body.
Gage accident was very useful in the study of psychology and medicine, after the event psychologist conclude that the front part of the brain works with personality, and an accident which affects this part may cause changes in a person attitude and way of relating with others. These studies led to the idea of brain localization. Brain localization idea, states that each part of the brain is in charge of a different task and has different functions. Also the brain study helped to understand and develope the concept of brain lateralization. This concept divides the brain into two similar but with different functions hemispheres. The left hemisphere deals with actual facts and things such as concepts, structure, discipline and rules, time sequences, mathematics, categorizing, logic and rationality and deductive reasoning, knowledge, details, definitions, planning and goals, words, productivity and efficiency, science and technology, stability, physical activity, and the right side of the body. The right hemisphere includes intuition, feelings and sensitivity, emotions, daydreaming and visualizing, creativity,color, awareness, first impressions, rhythm, spontaneity and impulsiveness, the physical senses, risk-taking, flexibility and variety, learning by experience, relationships, play and sports, introversion, humor, and the left side of the body.
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