Hemispheric Lateralisation

Question 1

What does contralateral mean?

Answer 1

The Left side of the brain controls the right side of the body and the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body.

Question 2

What is Hemispheric lateralisation

Answer 2

The division of functions between the two hemispheres

Question 3

What is the left hemisphere of the brain responsible for?

Answer 3

Speech and processing speech

Question 4

what is the right hemisphere of the brain responsible for?

Answer 4

Recognising emotions in others
Spatial information

Question 5

What was Sperry’s split brain research

Answer 5

Sperry (1968)
studied 11 patients who had a corpus colostomy.
Sperry projected info into participants visual fields. Manipulating what info went into each field.
Participants were then tested on whether they could see, draw or pick out the object they had interacted with.

Question 6

What were the founding’s of Sperry’s split brain research

Answer 6

Information presented to the left hemisphere could be spoken but it couldn’t if it was presented to the right hemisphere.

Information presented to the right hemisphere could be drawn or picked out from objects with the left hand.

Research supports that each hemisphere of the brain works independently