Phantoms in the Brain
The Reith Lectures
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The Cop-Grass Syndrome
In patients with brain damage, there is often a selective loss of one specific function. This gives you some confidence in asserting that that part of the brain is somehow involved in mediating that function. One example: A patient who can no longer recognize faces by looking at people has cop-grass syndrome. He would look at his mother and say, Doctor, this woman looks exactly like my mother, but she isn't. She's an imposter. And we found he had just as much disconnection between vision and emotion as our theory predicted.
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