Hemisphere Flashcards
Dichotic: Right ear advantage
auditory info goes contralateral for processing, and language is on the left
Musicians
asymmetry, bigger left plane temporal
Tachistoscope test
visual diacotic
verbal-LH, right visual
face/shapes- RH, left visual
Right hemisphere damage
Astereognosis- inability to recognize objects by touching them
Prosopagnosia-face blind fusiform)
Agnosia- can’t identify items, can describe
Wexler IQ test
Right hemisphere does spatial tasks
Motor pathways
strong contralateral connections (proximal/distal), ipsilateral is more proximal and weaker
Illusory Contours
we process wholes: see fat/skinny rectangles
When lines added, only right can see it
Memory: LH and RH
LH: associations/categories
RH: dates/time
Left hemisphere
Linguistic, discrete, parts, analytical, sequential, phonetic
Right hemisphere
nonlinguistic, holistic, synthetic, gestalt, form perception, spatial
Prosody:
RH
tone of voice aspects of language
Auditory region larger in left
palnum temporale
