June 28, 2007
I'm Brain Damaged?
I came across an interesting brain teaser about cognitive science titled When Brain Damage Helps. Apparently, a 2005 study concluded that problems involving insight could be more quickly and easily solved by patients who had suffered damage to their lateral frontal cortex. There are some differences between the simple test on this web page and the testing that was done in the study, of course, but it's still an interesting experiment.
So I was able to solve the first problem on the web page fairly quickly. And then I solved the second problem in about 10-15 seconds. It took one of my other coworkers about a minute to figure out the second one, and another one of my coworkers didn't come to the right answer.
I guess I need to get my lateral frontal cortex checked out now.
Posted by josuah at June 28, 2007 12:10 AM UTC+00:00
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Hey, you have not substanied damages to the lateral frontal cortex. You were born that way, I guess! No need to check it out.
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