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Source: http://www.world-science.net/othernews/121116_einstein.htm
Parts of Albert Einstein’s brain are visibly unlike those of most people and this could help account for his genius, according to a new study.
In it, Florida State University evolutionary anthropologist Dean Falk and colleagues describe for the first time the entire cerebral cortex, or outer layer, of Einstein’s brain from an examination of 14 recently discovered photographs.
In it, Florida State University evolutionary anthropologist Dean Falk and colleagues describe for the first time the entire cerebral cortex, or outer layer, of Einstein’s brain from an examination of 14 recently discovered photographs.
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A photo of Einstein's brain, as originally labeled in 1955, which was used in the new research. (Credit: Nat'l Museum of Health & Medicine)
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“Although the overall size and asymmetric shape of Einstein’s brain were normal, the prefrontal, somatosensory, primary motor, parietal, temporal and occipital cortices were extraordinary,” said Falk, referring to specific sections of the cerebral cortex.
The prefrontal cortex is known as the seat of cognitive analysis and abstract thought, and is sometimes referred to as the “CEO of the brain.” Specific parts of Einstein’s prefrontal cortex are “relatively expanded,” Falk and colleagues wrote, “which may have provided underpinnings for some of his extraordinary cognitive abilities.”
These same brain areas are associated “with the emergence of higher cognitive abilities” in evolution, they added.
The findings were published Nov. 16 in the journal Brain.
The part of Einstein’s cerebral cortex—the occipetal lobe—associated with the processing of visual information was “very convoluted” compared to the average, Falk and colleagues noted. This may have reflected extra processing power for mentally visualizing things, they suggested.
Upon Einstein’s death in 1955, his brain was removed and photographed from multiple angles with the permission of his family. Furthermore, it was sectioned into 240 blocks from which microscope slides were prepared. A great majority of the photographs, blocks and slides were lost from public sight for more than 55 years. The photos used by the researchers are held by the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Silver Spring, Md.
The paper also publishes a “roadmap” to Einstein’s brain prepared in 1955 by the physician Thomas Harvey to illustrate the locations within Einstein’s previously whole brain of 240 dissected blocks of tissue.
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