Attention Language And Lateralization Of The Brain

Question 1

Explain contralateral control

Answer 1

Left hemisphere controls right side of the body

Right hemisphere controls left side of the body

Question 2

Explain the flow of auditory connections

Answer 2

Ear - cochlea nucleus (crossover) - primary auditory cortex

Question 3

Explain visual connections

Answer 3

Left visual field (crossover at optic chiasm) to right hemisphere and vice versa

Question 4

How do we see objects in both eyes?

Answer 4

Different Neurons are activated in retina depending on the incoming angle

Optic chiasm

Question 5

Lateralization - certain processes are more highly developed on one side of the brain than the other. What is the left hemisphere good for and right?

Answer 5

Left hemisphere dominance - specialised for language

Right hemisphere dominance - specialised in emotional content

Question 6

What’s does ornstein (1977) say?

Answer 6

Left is specialised in details

Right is specialised in global patterns

Question 7

What’s the valence hypothesis?

Answer 7

Right hemisphere is dominant for negative emotions the left dominant for positive emotions (Davidson lateralization of emotions)

Question 8

What’s the right-hemisphere hypothesis? (Vs. valence hypothesis)

Answer 8

The right hemisphere is dominant for emotion recognition (traditional theory: lateralization of the brain functions)

Question 9

Attention and spatial ability occurs in which hemisphere?

Answer 9

Right

Question 10

Damage of the right parietal cortex?

Answer 10

Neglect of the body on the left side

Question 11

Damage of the right temporal cortex?

Answer 11

Neglect of surroundings on the left side

Question 12

Damage to the left hemisphere?

Answer 12

Not much neglect

Question 13

What happens in split brain patients?

Answer 13

Corpus callosum is cut, almost no communication between hemispheres

Question 14

Response depends on what in split brain patients?

Answer 14

Hemisphere stimuli is presented to

Question 15

Who are split brain patients?

Answer 15

Epilepsy

Corpus callosum is cut, half of body is affected (less seizures)

Question 16

List 3 reasons why speech is most efficient type of language?

Answer 16

Long distances
Without seeing
To get quick attention

Question 17

What’s the source filter model of speech production?

Answer 17

Source : vocal folds in larynx

Filter : supralaryngeal cavity filters sound

Question 18

Why do only humans speak?

Answer 18

1) limitations in speech sound production
- larynx position
- vocal and motor control
- breathing control

2) speech/language is more than just production

Question 19

Explain semantics, syntax and prosody?

Answer 19

Semantics = meaning 
Syntax = grammar 
Prosody = melody

Question 20

What’s the Broca’s area and where is it found?

Answer 20

In left frontal cortex

Language production and comprehending complex sentences

Question 21

What’s the wernickes area and where is it found?

Answer 21

Left temporal cortex

Language comprehension

Question 22

What’s mcgurk and mcdonald?

Answer 22

Visual speech perception

Hearing gaga
Seeing baba
Perceiving dada

Question 23

Why did language evolve?

Answer 23

Information exchange

Social aspect of language

Question 24

There are 2 connections between the hemispheres what are they?

Answer 24

Corpus callosum (network of axons)

Commissures (small band of axons)