![]() In Massachusetts Institute of Technology, scientists conducted research with rats to study their behavior when their memory was deliberately erased. This motivated Squire, his doctor, to study why he could come home after a walk yet he could not describe the location of his house, or the rooms in his house. In section I, however, it is noted that while at home he could go for a walk alone in the evenings, and come back home without getting lost, yet he could not locate his house on a mental map. An instance is when he saw a computer in a rehabilitation center, and he kept on repeating the words “…when I was in electronics there would have been a couple of six feet racks holding this thing” several times to the same audience. As recorded in section one, Eugene completely lost memory, and could not remember anything even when he returned home from the hospital. Scans that were later done on the brain revealed that the grey matter in his brain was destroyed by the virus (Duhigg, 2012). Despite the condition Eugene had, the doctors were not able to give any treatment except antiviral injection to reduce the spread of the virus to other parts of the brain (Duhigg, 2012). Eugene suffered an attack by viral encephalitis whose early symptoms were vomiting, fever, and dehydration. ![]() ![]() ![]() Eugene Pauley is introduced in section I as the individual who shaped peoples understanding of habits (Duhigg, 2012). This chapter concerns itself with enhancing the understanding of how habits emerge. ![]()
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