What Is Phineas Gage Central Idea

The central idea of the novel Phineas Gage is that Phineas was lucky and the medical field benefited from his accident. There are many things in the novel that the author says that help the reader understand the central idea. Phineas Gage changed what we know about brain science. Phineas also showed many people they were right or wrong with his accident. At the time of his accident there were two belief groups about the brain. The first was the localizers. These people believed the brain was divided into many different sections and each section controlled a different function. The second group, called the Whole Brainers, believed that the whole brain was connected and if one place was injured the whole brain would be affected. Both groups were