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...prove futile. The past is hidden somewhere beyond the reach of the intellect." In Swann's Way, it was a tea-soaked petite madeleine that touched off the hero's long-forgotten childhood memories. In the scientific world, the stimulus is sometimes a surgeon's probe. Montreal Surgeon Wilder Penfield, for example, while performing operations under local anesthesia, by chance found brain sites that when stimulated electrically led one patient to hear an old tune, another to recall an exciting childhood experience in vivid detail, and still another to relive the experience of bearing her baby. Penfield's findings...
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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...
...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...