Cerebral Asymmetry

Question 1

What joins the 2 hemispheres of the brain together?

Answer 1

The corpus callosum

Question 2

What does laterality mean?

Answer 2

Dominance in one side of the brain in controlling particular activities or functions.

Question 3

What does the left hemisphere dominate in?

Answer 3

Producing and understanding LANGUAGE.

Question 4

What does the right hemisphere dominate in?

Answer 4

Perceiving and synthesizing non-verbal info, music and facial expressions.

Question 5

Each hemisphere controls movement for which side of the body?

Answer 5

the opposing side.

Question 6

What is meant by the phrase ‘laterality is a relative concept’?

Answer 6

That each hemisphere is not solely responsible for different functions - both hemispheres play a role in virtually every behaviour that you partake - each part of the brain just specializes.

Question 7

What is laterality affected by?

Answer 7

Environmental and genetic factors

Question 8

What environmental and genetic factors affect laterality?

Answer 8

• left handedness
• females
• the cerebral organisation of these people is more integrated and less lateralised.