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...biggest insight came one night in 1967, when he realized that if evolution had confined speech areas to the left side of the brain, corresponding parts of the right side must have been cleared for some other powerful function-perhaps the ancient voices. He remembered that Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield had done some classic tests of the right side of the brain. "I have a key to the Princeton library, and I rushed down there at midnight," says Jaynes. "I got Penfield's article, and I almost fainted. There it was. When you stimulate certain parts of the right side...
Died. Wilder G. Penfield, 85, pioneering neurosurgeon and cartographer of the cerebral cortex; of cancer; in Montreal. While treating an epileptic, Penfield probed her brain electrically, setting off recollections of the birth of her child. Subsequently, he mapped the control centers of various kinds of memories and bodily functions and developed surgical techniques that cured many cases of epilepsy. The Montreal Neurological Institute, which he founded with a Rockefeller Foundation grant in 1934, became a mecca for doctors and patients from around the world...
...school year 1955 is distant enough by now to be vulnerable to the assaults of nostalgia. The light is diffused, soft and often colored gold: the director would probably describe it as the golden light of memory. Our Time is that kind of movie. The setting is Penfield, a fancy girls' boarding school in New England. The two protagonists are senior-year roommates, Abby (Pamela Sue Martin) and Muffy (Betsy Slade). Abby shows up to start the new school year with a suitcase full of summertime sexual experiences shared with her boy friend Michael (Parker Stevenson). She tells...
...tasting a tea-soaked petite Madeleine. Others have found that a memory-jogging whiff of perfume, a word, a few notes of music can conjure up similar-and often realistic-recollections of events they experienced many years earlier. A landmark discovery was made by the great Canadian neurosurgeon, Wilder Penfield, when he found that he could stimulate memories electrically. Probing a patient's brain with an electrode in order to locate the source of her epileptic seizures, Penfield was amazed when the young woman recalled an incident from her childhood in vivid detail. Penfield continued his studies and found...
...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...