Phineas Gage Solo Re-Take Lesson 9

What problem do people with the same frontal lobe damage as Phineas often have?

• They need special rules to play cards.

• They have trouble making decisions about risk.

• Their emotional responses are always predictable.

• They have the same personality as before their injury.

Dr. Harlow's guess about the location of Phineas's injury would have been more accurate if

• he had the iron rod.

• he had a better calculator.

• he had advanced scans of Phineas's brain.

• he had advanced calculators.

How do the Damasios figure out the location of Phineas's brain injury? Number the steps in the correct order.

• Overlay the images onto a three-dimensional model of the brain

• Calculate the different possible paths of the tamping iron

• Add the tamping iron to the digital model 

• Plot the entry and exit wounds 

• Photograph and x-ray Phineas’s skull 

The computer program, Brainvox, calculates ________ different possible paths of the tamping iron through Phineas's brain.

• 6

• 15

• 16

• 60

How does the team know which path is the right one?

• They use historical evidence and medical knowledge to rule out every path but one.

• They make their best guess based on the condition of Phineas's skull.

• There was only one way the tamping iron would have fit into the skull.

• They picked the one that was most like Dr. Harlow's original drawing of Phineas's head.