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Appearing not to notice the glaring chronological anomaly, he cites the case of Phineas Gage, the American railroad foreman whose brain was violently punctured by an iron rod.
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman – review 2011
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NPR reports that a couple of collectors of old photos recently discovered that a daguerrotype they've owned since the 1960s is the only known photograph of Phineas Gage.
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It will be a long time before I forget the astounding saga of Phineas Gage; even longer before I forget the book's description about how a female chimp page 211 ingeniously made peace between two belligerent males.
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After the accident, Phineas Gage was largely unaffected in his ability to think and perform tasks.
THE PROGRAM KELLY TRAVER 2009
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After the accident, Phineas Gage was largely unaffected in his ability to think and perform tasks.
THE PROGRAM KELLY TRAVER 2009
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It will be a long time before I forget the astounding saga of Phineas Gage; even longer before I forget the book's description about how a female chimp page 211 ingeniously made peace between two belligerent males.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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Famous for its possession of the skull and life mask of Phineas Gage see above images, top image from Cabinet of Art and Medicine.
"A Morbid Medical Museum" JE 2008
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The author makes the obligatory reference to William James and Phineas Gage, two individuals all intro psych students ought to know, then goes on to superficially identify the area of the brain Heatherton and colleague Michael Gazzaniga have been studying - the medial prefrontal cortex.
Archive 2006-06-01 Field Notes 2006
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A good sign is that the coverage of the case of Phineas Gage, the railroad worker who had parts of his frontal lobes blown away in 1840, is up to date and avoids many of the myths that have recently been debunked by Macmillan's brilliant biography An Odd Kind of Fame ISBN 0262632594.
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A good sign is that the coverage of the case of Phineas Gage, the railroad worker who had parts of his frontal lobes blown away in 1840, is up to date and avoids many of the myths that have recently been debunked by Macmillan's brilliant biography An Odd Kind of Fame ISBN 0262632594.
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