Phineas Gage

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  • WHOLE BRAINERS
  • Here is your $2.00 earning from today, this is the last time you will be receiving them.
  • I'm truly sorry Phineas but we are going to have to let you go.
  • LOCALIZERS
  • Ok men, let's do this. I will put this straw up his nose and you pour the mold.
  • This guy is not a fake, he is indeed real and so is his injury. 
  • I can't believe this guy is only about 25 and managed to survive all this.
  • This had to be fake.
  • My name is Phineas Gage.
  • These people believed that the brain is responsible for ALL the brain's functions instead of multiple parts.
  • Dr. Bigelow was a whole brainer.
  • These people believed that the brain was separated into sections and these sections controlled the different parts of the brain.
  • Dr. Harlow was a localizer.
  • Psst Dr. did you hear about that guy Phineas Gage? 
  • Well, apparently even though he is not medically injured anymore, he is not the same. Something about that injury changed him.
  • Dr. Sizer
  • I did, why do you ask Dr.?
  • Dr. Sizer
  • To: American Phrenological Journal
  • We have been informed confidencial people that while this man might be fully recovered, his brain will forever be changed. And this is reflected on his behavior after the incident.