🔄FROM THE ARCHIVE Einstein's brain, preserved during autopsy, has been studied for decades. Some say it's time to give it a rest.
Before Harvey partitioned Einstein’s brain into 240 chunks, he photographed it from various angles. This is the top view. An elderly man pries open a jar and fishes out a dripping human cerebellum. He carves off a chunk with a kitchen knife and places it in a plastic pill bottle. Then, wiping a hand on his pants, the man hands the bottle to an admiring visitor.
A philosophical divide persists to this day. Some researchers suggest this or that region of the brain corresponds to a mental faculty; others say it amounts to little more than phrenology, a 19th-century pseudoscience that claimed bumps on the skull could explain personality. The epithet dogs even some functional MRI studies, which seek to link specific thought processes to corresponding regions of the brain by measuring moment-to-moment differences in blood flow.
In a 2013 analysis of the photos before the last paragraph, anthropologist Dean Falk counted four ridges — one more than usual — in the right frontal lobe, an area associated with abstract thought. Researchers disagree about the significance of such anomalies. Exciting stuff, the researchers suggest. Stuff and nonsense, says Pace University psychology professor Terence Hines.
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