Word: penfield
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Julianne Reich of New Orleans (Biology); Kathryn L. Reyerson of Minneapolis, Minn. (History); Sandra Carey Robertson of Washington, D.C. (Romance Languages); Julie M. Shawvan of Claremont, Calif. (Chemistry); Judith S. Sullivan of Baltimore, Md. (History and Literature) and Susanne J. Wilson of Penfield, N.Y. (English...
...Graduate School of Education's annual William H. Burton lecture, Wilder Penfield, professor at the Montreal Neurological Institute, described years of experiments which imply that concepts and words are stored in different parts of the brain...
...Penfield said that in the course of operations to remove small, malfunctioning parts of the brain from epileptics, he had electrically stimulated areas of the brain and determined their function. The operations were done under local anesthetic, so that the patients were conscious...
...Penfield also argued that children control the growth of their own brains. "By selecting to what he will attend, the child conditions his own cortex," he said. "As the years pass, the child, with the help of mothers and teachers, may be said to create his own brain mechanisms...
...Wilder Penfield of the Montreal Neurological Institute will deliver the William H. Burton Lecture on "The Stream of Consciousness: A Discussion of Neuronal Recordings and Recall" at 8 p.m. tonight in Lowell Lecture Hall...