Evaluation Of Hemispheric Lateralisation Flashcards
What has Sperry’s work into the split brain phenomena produced?
An impressive and sizeable body of research findings
What has Sperry’s research mainly concluded?
That the left hemisphere is geared towards analytics where as the right hemisphere can only produce rudimentary words
Why are there strengths regarding the methodologies?
They made use of highly specialised and standardised procedures
What has Pucetti 1977 suggested?
That the two hemispheres also functionally different, represent a form of duality in the brain that in effect we are all two minds
What have researchers argued?
The two hemispheres form a highly integrated system and both are involved in almost every day tasks
Why have many researchers urged caution?
In the spread of acceptance of their findings as the brain split patients are an unusual sample of people
Limitations of the RPS for struggles with generalisation?
- 11 took part
- Asians
- history of epileptic seizures
What is one legacy of the work?(psychological literature)
Growing body of psychological literature that over emphasises and simplifies the functional distinction between left and right hemispheres
