Brain damage and our notions of cognition
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How has brain damage changed our notions of cognition? Provide a specific example in your response.
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This solution includes a discussion of brain damage / injury, and the concept of cognition. External traumas and neurological conditions are discussed as well as diffuse vs. focal injury in relation to cognition and our changing notions of it.
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Science has studied brain injury resulting from external trauma such as war veterans who had damage caused by shrapnel, objects, explosion, gunshots, etc. and resulting from internal "shearing" resulting primarily from car accidents and other head trauma (closed head injury). In addition, physical conditions which involve brain damage include Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's, ALS, etc. We now know, for example that discrete injury such as a gunshot wound will have more minimal effects typically than general, diffuse damage such as that seen in closed ...
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