Zusammenfassung der Ressource
brain lesions
- any kind of damage to brain -
accident or surgery
- corpus callosum integrates
information throughout the brain
- cut through to inhibit
epileptic seizures
- electrical stimulation of temporal
lobe elicits childhood memories
- important for providing a basis for
biological theories of memory
- gage damaged left prefrontal lobe and
became emotionally unhibited
- problems of interpreting damage
as one-off - affects several areas - no
control group - plasticity
- selective lesions made on
laboratory animals - more precise
information but ethical problems