Phineas Gage Quotes

Phineas Gage was packing dynamite into a rock and it exploded prematurely,

Phineas Gage's case is not the only important historical source in the effort to understand the neural basis of reasoning and decision making...[to understand the effect of] prefrontal damage. ... The Hebb-Penfield and Ackerly-Benton shared a number of personality traits...One way of describing their predicament is by saying that they never construct an appropriate theory about their persons.

Phineas Gage's case is not the only important historical source in the effort to understand the neural basis of reasoning and decision making...[to understand the effect of] prefrontal damage. ... The Hebb-Penfield and Ackerly-Benton shared a number of personality traits...They are bereft of a theory of their own mind and of the mind of those with whom they interact

Phineas Gage's case is not the only important historical source in the effort to understand the neural basis of reasoning and decision making;

Phineas Gage is a railroad worker who was impaled through the skull by a pipe. Despite losing an eye, he went on to drive carriages in Chile and died 11 years after the injury.

Temperament itself is so tempestuous. One year after Jane Eyre was published, a medical oddity revealed one of the first examples of the brain’s effect on personality. On September 13, 1848, Phineas Gage was blasting rock while constructing a railroad in Vermont.