Hemispheric Lateralisation

Question 1

Definition Of hemispheric Lateralisation

Answer 1

Certain mental processes + behaviours are dominated/
controlled by one hemisphere than the other

Question 2

Examples of lateralisation

Answer 2

Language (W+B) - LHS
Vision = contralateralised + ipsilateral

Question 3

Split brain studies

Answer 3

Corpus callosum cut in patients with severe epilepsy
Hemispheres cannot communicate

Question 4

What does the right side of the brain process?

Answer 4

Information from the all left half of the body

Question 5

What does the left side of the brain process?

Answer 5

Information from the right half of the body

Question 6

What is contralateral wiring ?

Answer 6

Cross wiring. One side of brain controls opposite half of body

Question 7

Sperry

Answer 7

Image protected to Ps RVF or LVF
RVF - able to describe what they saw unlike LVF
Due to RVF connected to LHS brain - language centres

Question 8

Strengths of Sperry

Answer 8

Controlled + standardised - scientific methodology
Allows research that would be ethically wrong

Question 9

Weaknesses of Sperry

Answer 9

Lacks ecological validity
Only 11 ps - generalisable ???