Biopsychology - Hemispheric Lateralisation

Question 1

What is Hemispheric Lateralisation?

Answer 1

The idea that the left and right hemispheres of the brain are responsible for different functions

Question 2

What is the left hemisphere responsible for?

Answer 2

Language

Question 3

What language centers are in the left hemisphere?

Answer 3

• Broca’s Area
• Wernicke’s Area

Question 4

What is the right hemisphere responsible for?

Answer 4

Recognition and Creativity

Question 5

What can the right hemisphere only produce?

Answer 5

Rudimentary words and phrases but contributes to the emotional context of what is being said

Question 6

What does the brain have?

Answer 6

Contralateral wiring

Question 7

What functions are not lateralised?

Answer 7

• Vision
• Motor
• Somatosensory areas

Question 8

What does the right hemisphere receive information from?

Answer 8

The left visual field

Question 9

What does the left hemisphere receive information from?

Answer 9

The right visual field

Question 10

What is the corpus collosum?

Answer 10

The bundle of nerve fibres in the brain that enables corresponding regions of the left and right hemispheres to communicate