Phineas Gage was a foreman who contructed railroads. He is famous later when he died because of the tremendous accident he survived. He was with an iron rod pushing soil to dynamite inside of a rock so that there was more pressure to make sure the dynamite breaks the rock into pieces. As he was with the rod, it sparkled by having contact with the dynamite's lit, causing an explosion that pushed the rod away, and Gage was on its way. The rod passed through Gage's left brain side, causing loss of the left eye and brain damage on part of the brain. As a result, Gage was now an angry man that could not work with others. This means that his behavior and personality changed dramatically, even though he didn't look like when the accident happened. This abiding mood made others not to work, even talk, with Phineas Gage.
Brain Localization is the term used to say that a specific part of the brain is for a specific function. We can see the vision function is at the occipital lobe, the auditory function is at the top part of the temporal lobe, the speech production is at the Broca area, and the rest of the parts have a respective function.
Brain Lateralization is the term that talks about the left and right part of the brain. The left part of the brain is the one that controls your right side of the body, and is the one that focuses on knowledge, reasoning, planning, etc. Basically is analytical the part in which is all of our education system process. In the other hand, the right part of the brain controls the left side of our body, and the side in which develops creativity, intuition, emotions, etc. Basically it is a holistic way of perception.
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