brain lesions

brain lesions

1. any kind of damage to brain - accident or surgery

2. corpus callosum integrates information throughout the brain

   • cut through to inhibit epileptic seizures

3. electrical stimulation of temporal lobe elicits childhood memories

   • important for providing a basis for biological theories of memory

4. gage damaged left prefrontal lobe and became emotionally unhibited

5. problems of interpreting damage as one-off - affects several areas - no control group - plasticity

6. selective lesions made on laboratory animals - more precise information but ethical problems