"Closer Look at Einstein's Brain" -11

"Closer Look at Einstein's Brain"
ScienceNOW. Retrieved at: http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/417/1

Albert Einstein, a genius, died in 1955 and had his brain removed by a pathologist, who preserved, photographed and measured Einstein’s brain. Throughout the years, a colleague of the pathologist cut up slices of the brain to mount them onto slides, and occasionally send them off to universities. What was left of the brain then traveled in a jar with the pathologist until he gave the last remaining piece of Einstein’s brain to the University Medical Center of Princeton. A neurobiologist studied the pictures of the brain, as that was all that was left of the whole brain intact. They found that Einstein’s parietal lobes were larger than normal, yet his brain size was smaller than the lower end of average for modern human beings. While studying his parietals, they noticed that he had more grooves and ridges, possibly explaining his abilities to conceptualize physic problems. While studying other photos of his brain and 25 others, they found a knob like structure in the motor cortex and realized that this is the structure that controls left hand, but in others it has been associated with musical ability. Some are skeptical that Einstein was a parietal thinker, such as thinking in images and sensations, but they are only working off of photographs so it is difficult to tell.