RafaV Psychology Blog: Phineas Gage

Phineas Gage was one of the most famous people to suffer a brain damage. Phineas accident was also the first incident that helped the scientists find out the relationship between the personality and the front lobe of the brain. Phineas was a former at the railroad construction and there was where his accident took place. On September 13 of 1848 the accident of the iron going through his head. The tamping iron was 3 feet and 7 inches long. The tamping iron went through his left cheek bone and completely out of the top of his head landing about 25 to 30 feet behind him. He was knocked down but did not lose his conciseness after the impact. Phineas because of the injury he lost his eye and the frontal lobe of his brain. Phineas personality started changing causing the people around him to worry because of his behavior and how he became rood and bad to people at work. Scientists after Phineas death found that each part of the brain had a certain function and in the case of Phineas and his frontal lobe it controlled his personality causing him to be rude to everyone. Brain localization means or is what the scientists discovered because of Phineas case that each part of the brain has a certain function or work to do that connects to the whole body and how to act or controlling our emotions and feelings. The brain lateralization is the division of the brain and what the right part of the brain specificly controls and what the left part of the brain controls.