Biopsychology- Localisation of Function

Question 1

What is the role of the motor cortex?

Answer 1

Controls voluntary movement

Question 2

What is the role of the somatosensory cortex?

Answer 2

Processes information about touch, pain, temperature and proprioception

Question 3

What is the role of Broca’s area?

Answer 3

Speech production

Question 4

What is the role of the auditory cortex?

Answer 4

Processes information from our ears

Question 5

What is the role of the visual cortex?

Answer 5

Processes information from our eyes

Question 6

What is the role of Wernicke’s area?

Answer 6

Language comprehension

Question 7

What are the 4 lobes of the brain?

Answer 7

Frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital

Question 8

How is the brain divided?

Answer 8

Into left and right hemispheres

Question 9

How are the two hemispheres connected?

Answer 9

By the corpus callosum

Question 10

Where is Broca’s area located?

Answer 10

Left frontal lobe

Question 11

Where is Wernicke’s area located?

Answer 11

Left temporal lobe

Question 12

Where is the motor cortex located?

Answer 12

Frontal lobe

Question 13

Where is the somatosensory cortex located?

Answer 13

Parietal lobe

Question 14

What is the left hemisphere responsible for?

Answer 14

Language, logic, analysis, problem solving

Question 15

What is the right hemisphere responsible for?

Answer 15

Spatial comprehension, emotions, facial recognition

Question 16

What is the different hemispheres having different functions known as?

Answer 16

Hemispheric lateralisation of function

Question 17

What was the method of Sperry’s study?

Answer 17

• Combination of case studies and experiments
• 11 participants who had undergone split brain surgery
• Control group used who hadn’t had split brain surgery
• Participants covered one eye and looked at a fixed point on a projection screen
• Pictures projected onto right or left of the screen

Question 18

What was the results of Sperry’s study?

Answer 18

• If picture shown in right visual field then participants could say or write down
• If picture shown onto left then split brain participants couldn’t say or write what they’d seen

Question 19

What was the conclusion from Sperry’s study?

Answer 19

Left hemisphere can convert sight into spoken and written language