Bio- Localisation And Hempsheric Lateralisation

Question 1

Which two case studies support brain localisation

Answer 1

• H.M
• Phineas Gage

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Question 2

What is the problem with using case studies

Answer 2

• small sample size
• can’t really generalise to the whole population because it either hasn’t happened to them or they haven’t had that operation

Question 3

What are the four different lobes in the brain

Answer 3

Frogs - frontal
Play - paraital
Outside - occipital
Tennis - temporal

Question 4

What are the six different types of the brain

Answer 4

Motor cortex 
Somatosensory cortex 
Visual cortex 
Wernickes area 
Auditory cortex 
Broca's area

Question 5

What does the motor cortex do

Answer 5

• controls voluntary movement

Question 6

What does the somatosensory cortex do

Answer 6

• processes information about touch, pain, temperature and the position of the body

Question 7

What does the visual cortex do

Answer 7

• processes information from our eyes

Question 8

What does wernickes area do

Answer 8

• responsible for the understanding of language

- er in the word just like ear

Question 9

What does the auditory cortex do

Answer 9

• processes information form our ears

Question 10

What does brocas area do

Answer 10

• responsible for the production of speech

Question 11

What is the difference between the two hemispheres

Answer 11

• left: specialise in language processing, can identify small details
• right: dominant in recognising emotions and spatial relationships, looks at the bigger picture

Question 12

What is the thing that connects the two hemispheres

Answer 12

• the corpus callosum

Question 13

What happens with the optic nerves and the hemispheres

Answer 13

• opposite nerve from each eye crosses over into the opposite hemisphere
• left eye will send signals to the right hemisphere

Question 14

Why is split brain surgery a thing

Answer 14

• was done in the early 20th century for people with severe epilepsy
• cut the corpus callosum so it stayed in one hemisphere
• side effect is that information can no longer move Bettendorf hemispheres

Question 15

Evaluation of spilt brain research

Answer 15

:) rare and unique cases
- provide a huge amount of information
- without them we wouldn’t be able to to manipulate in a lab ethically
:( sample size is small and unrepresentative
- case studies which means any anomalies can be exaggerated
- cannot generalise to non-western patients
- epilepsy so could have other dames to the brain already causing these results