3B4, 3B5, and 3B6 Flashcards
Corpus callosom
The large band of neural fibers connecting the two brain hemispheres and carrying messages between them
Split brain
A condition resulting from surgery that isolates the brain’s two hemispheres by cutting the fibers (mainly those of the corpus callosum) connecting them
Split brain surgery leaves people
With two separate minds
Right hemisphere damage disrupts
Emotion, processing, and social conduct
To the brain language is language
Whether spoken or signed
The right hemisphere modulates
Speech to make meaning clear
The right hemisphere
Helps orchestrate our sense of self
Consciousness
Our awareness of ourselves and our environment
Cognitive neuroscience
The interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language)
Even in a motionless body
The brain-and the mind- may still be active
Dual processing
The principle that information is often simultaneously processed in separate conscious and unconscious tracks
Consciousness sometimes
Arrives late to the decision-making party
Consciousness is nature’s way of keeping us from
Thinking and doing everything at once
Accidents, strokes, and tumors in the left hemisphere can impair
Reading, writing, speaking, arithmetic reasoning, and understanding
