Phineas Gage Paper Alicia Barbitta PSY/360

Often times when people think about the brain they do not realize how it works. It is thought that the brain just stores information and we remember it. However it is actually much more complex than that. The brain is always being studied and one way it is studied is through psychology. Roizman(2010), Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mind and mental function, including learning, memory, attention, perception, reasoning, language, conceptual development, and decision making. The modern study of cognition rests on the premise that the brain can be understood as a complex computing system.

The brain is like a computer; everything is linked together and in some ways helps the other components. If one of the...