PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Phineas Gage
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Psy 100 - lecture 7 - brain and its strutures. Related to the self, makes us human. Many believe that what makes us human is our ability of higher cognition such as being able to plan for the future, complex languages. Got hit by a rod which was propelled through his skull, entering through his left cheekbone and exciting through the top of his head. It seems that physically he recovered from the incident, but the injury has a permanent impact on his mental confition. He is fitful, irreverent, indulging at times, ,but little deference for his fellows, impatient of restraint when it conflicts with his desires harlow, The damage to his frontal cortex had resulted in loss of socail inhibitions (change his sense of self) Pfc damage can lead one being knowledgeable of the world, but not being able to respond appropriately to it. There is a funcational dissociation between parts of the pfc.