PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Phineas Gage, David H. Hubel, Axon Terminal
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Thinking and feeling and the pfc: (cid:1) (cid:1) Pfc is connected to everything, so important. Phineas gage example: the original idea of the brain was that it functioned holistically, found out that certain areas of the brain were responsible for different motor/behavioral functions, although gage was physically okay, it completely changed his. Pfc could be said what makes us human gives us our sense of sense of self self. Others believe that what makes humans human is our ability of higher cognition ex. being able to plan for the future, complex languages. Pfc damage can lead to you being knowledgeable of the world around but not being able to respond appropriately to it despite knowing that you should: ex. Pfc patient knew that he should care about how his wife felt and knew that he should be more caring and considerate. But he just simply couldn"t there is a functional dissociation between parts of the pfc: dorsal cognitive functions.
