Hemispheric Influences

Question 1

Whos paper researched hemispheric influences?

Answer 1

Gazzaniga 1995

Question 2

What type of a person was this research conducted on?

Answer 2

split-brain patients, usually epilepsy sufferers who have had their corpus callosum severed to reduce their symptoms.

Question 3

what has happened which has allowed us to study split brain patients with more certainty?

Answer 3

technoogical advances have allowed us to give information to only one side of the brain with some certainty

Question 4

where is the lexicon situated in the general population?

Answer 4

left hemisphere

Question 5

what is a lexicon?

Answer 5

rules of grammar, how we understand words and the meaning behind them

Question 6

This research looked at split brain patients whos lexicon was what?

Answer 6

in the right hemisphere

Question 7

When the lexicon is in the left hemisphere where are more errors made?

Answer 7

in the middle letters of words

Question 8

When the lexicon is in the right hemisphere where are most errors made?

Answer 8

on the end of words

Question 9

Is there any evidence of letter priming in the right hemisphere

Answer 9

no

Question 10

What happened to some split brain patients up to 10 years after surgery?

Answer 10

Those who were dominantly left can learn to use both hemispheres (to a certain degree)