"Putting Phineas Back Together Again"
MAIN IDEA: What is the chapter mostly about?
The main idea in ch 4 is figuring out how to help phineas'. In this chapter they scan him. They are trying to tell his incident over again.This chapter is about Phineas' brain and how he survived the poll. So this what ch. 4 is about.
VOCABULARY: What important words should the reader know to understand the text? (Use the Glossary to help you.)
1) Damasios: Renowned brain researchers
2) Aroused: Evoke or awaken
"When your emotions are "aroused"" (p.94)
3) Specification: An of describing
"The generic electronic skull is then adjusted to Phineas's specification" (p.96)
4) Somatosensory: Relating to or denoting a sensation
"the motor and somatosensory stripes." (p.98)
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: What important or significant facts/information should the reader know to understand the chapter? Provide notes (bullet points are okay) about the chapter to inform a potential reader (At least 12 facts - be sure and put information copied in quotation marks and provide a source).
AUTHOR'S PURPOSE: Why did the author include this chapter? (Entertain, persuade, inform?)
I think the author wrote this chapter because he wanted to tell the readers how the doctors put Phineas' skull back together. I also think the reason he wrote this chapter is because he wanted to tell us how the doctors put Phineas' skull back together.
The main idea in ch 4 is figuring out how to help phineas'. In this chapter they scan him. They are trying to tell his incident over again.This chapter is about Phineas' brain and how he survived the poll. So this what ch. 4 is about.
VOCABULARY: What important words should the reader know to understand the text? (Use the Glossary to help you.)
1) Damasios: Renowned brain researchers
2) Aroused: Evoke or awaken
"When your emotions are "aroused"" (p.94)
3) Specification: An of describing
"The generic electronic skull is then adjusted to Phineas's specification" (p.96)
4) Somatosensory: Relating to or denoting a sensation
"the motor and somatosensory stripes." (p.98)
IMPORTANT INFORMATION: What important or significant facts/information should the reader know to understand the chapter? Provide notes (bullet points are okay) about the chapter to inform a potential reader (At least 12 facts - be sure and put information copied in quotation marks and provide a source).
- “psychology study his case because it illustrates how the lobes of the frontal cortex the two halves of your brain that meet in your forehead—are the seat of “executive functions.” Pg 63
- “After 150 years on display just outside the dean’s office in the medical school, they were cleaned up and moved in 2000 to a new exhibit case in the Countway Library of Medicine just down Shattuck Street.” Pg 128
- “In 1998, one hundred and fifty years after his terrible accident, the town of Cavendish, Vermont, held a medical seminar and festival to honor Phineas Gage.” Pg 131
- Today, Scientist are able to generate images of the path that the bar took, so that they can figure out how he survived the ascendent.
- Technology has aloud us to do an MRI of Phineas' Brain and Skull so that we can use more complex tools to figure out how he did not die the second the bar when through his skull.
- Scientist are saying that Phineas Gage is the biggest science/medical mystery in all of the world and are still trying to figure it out today.
- Phineas is not the only one who had frontal cortex. (pg.65)
- Like Phineas with his $1,000 pebbles, they perform well logic and math tests but make choices in trading situations. (pg.66)
- To study these modern-day Phineases, the Damasios have far more sophisticated. (pg.66)
AUTHOR'S PURPOSE: Why did the author include this chapter? (Entertain, persuade, inform?)
I think the author wrote this chapter because he wanted to tell the readers how the doctors put Phineas' skull back together. I also think the reason he wrote this chapter is because he wanted to tell us how the doctors put Phineas' skull back together.
This is a simulated image of the path that the bar took through Phineas' head. It shows that the bear when through the left cheak, behind the left eye ball, and out of the right top side of his head.
In 1998, one hundred and fifty years after Phineas Gage's terrible accident, the town of Cavendish, Vermont, held a medical seminar and festival in his honor.
This is a picture of a “coronal” MRI. An MRI, is a picture of a part of the body taken using magnets. Instead of a side view, this is a slice of the brain taken head-on.