Whose Brain Is It Anyway?

摘要

Many scientists have tried to find out where, in the winding topography of the human brain, genius resides. For instance, in the middle of the 19th century, German anatomist Rudolf Wagner collected the brains of numerous professors to study them in detail. The star of the cerebral collection, examined many times in the past 150 years: the brain of German genius and "Prince of Mathematics" Carl Friedrich Gauss. But when Renate Schweizer of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Gottin-gen, Germany, recently examined the brain in the University of Gottingen's collection labeled "C. F. Gauss," she noticed a rare anatomical feature in the left hemisphere: a bit of brain tissue bridging the central fissure between the frontal and parietal lobe.