Question
This neuroscientist was the last author on a paper that correlated damage to the prefrontal cortex with utilitarian moral views, which was approvingly cited on Twitter as a great way to dunk on opponents in a philosophical debate. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this neuroscientist who developed the somatic marker hypothesis in his book Descartes’ Error.
ANSWER: António Damásio (“dah-MAHZ-yoo”)
[10e] Damásio used modern imaging techniques to study the skull of this man, a railroad foreman who had a tamping rod driven through his brain and remarkably survived.
ANSWER: Phineas Gage
[10h] In his somatic marker hypothesis, Damásio separated the “body loop,” which deals with the actions of the body, from this loop, which deals with the reaction of the brain to potential or anticipated actions.
ANSWER: as-if loop [accept as-if-body loop]
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