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Encephalon #12 is up at AlphaPsy.

The Neurophilosopher has a cool article on Phineas Gage -- a patient that is often used as an example in neuroscience classes because he had a railroad spike tamping iron go through his head and cause personality changes.

The Mungers at Cognitive Daily are starting a podcast. Nice.

An error in your first sentence caught my eye. It wasn't a railroad spike. It was a tamping rod.

Funny what a person stores in long term memory. I recalled this from a visit to the Waren Museum at HMS 45 years ago. As far as know, I hadn't thought about this between then and now.

By Thomas Weston (not verified) on 06 Dec 2006 #permalink