Phineas Gage Vocab 3-4

influencing or applying to things that happened in the past

• outmoded

• neurologist

• retroactivity

• empathy

abilities to predict, to decide, and to interact socially

• humbug

• executive functions

• skeptics

• neurologist

greatly exaggerated publicity intended to excite public interest in something

• intervals

• retroactively

• empathy

• hype

people who doubt something is true

• skeptics

• intervals

• humbug

• empathy

professional who studies, diagnoses, and treats injuries of the brain, spinal cord, and nerves

• executive functions

• neurologist

• psychologist

• skeptics

physically weak

• skeptics

• hype

• empathy

• feeble

periods of time between one event and the next

• synapse

• frontal cortex

• humbug

• intervals

the two halves of the brain that meet in the forehead

• frontal cortex

• executive functions

• intervals

• psychologist

something that is meant to deceive or cheat people or something that is silly or makes no sense

• neurologist

• hype

• feeble

• humbug

a professional who evaluates and studies behavior and mental processes

• neurologist

• humbug

• psychologist

• frontal cortex