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Reflection Question: Why Is The Story of Phineas Gage Considered So Extraordinary?

The document discusses Phineas Gage's extraordinary story and what it teaches about the brain. Specifically, it notes that Gage experienced significant personality changes after an accident caused a rod to pierce his brain, showing how damage to certain areas can impact behavior. It also suggests the frontal lobe and cerebellum may be activated during lying or telling the truth based on their roles in thinking. Finally, it identifies the frontal lobe, cerebral cortex, cerebellum, and parietal lobe as brain regions involved in various morning activities described in a passage, like feeling nervous or excited.

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Reflection Question: Why Is The Story of Phineas Gage Considered So Extraordinary?

The document discusses Phineas Gage's extraordinary story and what it teaches about the brain. Specifically, it notes that Gage experienced significant personality changes after an accident caused a rod to pierce his brain, showing how damage to certain areas can impact behavior. It also suggests the frontal lobe and cerebellum may be activated during lying or telling the truth based on their roles in thinking. Finally, it identifies the frontal lobe, cerebral cortex, cerebellum, and parietal lobe as brain regions involved in various morning activities described in a passage, like feeling nervous or excited.

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Reflection Question: Why is the story of Phineas Gage considered so extraordinary?

What does his story teach us about the brain?


 Because all the things he lived through his life since the fatal accident he had
and the reconstruction he had is not an easy life to lived cause he had a lot of
personality changes after that and conflicts with the people around him
New research is using functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a scan of the
brain that shows specific areas that are activated during certain tasks, as a lie
detector test. Explain which area(s) of the brain you think might light up to show that
you are telling a lie or telling the truth. Explain your reasoning.
 Well, I would say the frontal part of the brain like the cerebellum because
were most of our thinking comes from there is like our main section in the
brain is important to know that also the other parts will show some kind of
light or reaction because we use not only one part of the brain but multiple at
once sometimes
Return to the first paragraph of Activity 2.1.2: Build-A-Brain and reread the
description of your morning activities. Use your map to determine the part of the
brain responsible for each of the actions, thoughts, or emotions that occur in this
paragraph. Either rewrite the paragraph and add brain regions in parentheses after
each activity or simply list the actions and write the brain region next to it.
 Frontal lobe: lies, cerebral cortex trues, cerebellum: nervous, parietal lobe:
excitement

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