Simulating brain damage. Hinton, G. E., Plaut, D. C., & Shallice, T. Scientific American, 269(4):76–82, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research., October, 1993.
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In 1944 a young soldier suffered a bullet wound to the head. He survived the war with a strange disability: although he could read and comprehend some words with ease, many others gave him trouble. He read the word antique as "vase" and uncle as "nephew." The injury was devastating to the patient, G.R., but it provided invaluable information to researchers investigating the mechanisms by which the brain comprehends written language. A properly functioning system for converting letters on a page to spoken sounds reveals little of its inner structure, but when that system is disrupted, the peculiar pattern of the resulting dysfunction may offer essential clues to the original, undamaged architecture.

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