Lateralisation Flashcards

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Hemispheric lateralisation

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Means two halves of brain are not the same.

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Left side

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Is for language and speech

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Right side

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Motor tasks and visual tasks

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What are nerve fibres called that connect both sides

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Corpus callosum

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Epilepsy

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Cut these nerve fibres to prevent seizures from violent electrical activity - these patients are called split brain patients

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A03: Related to increased neural capacity

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by using only one hemisphere to engage in a task would leave the other hemisphere free to engage in another function
Rogers found that, in the chicken, brain lateralisation is associated with an enhanced ability to perform two tasks simultaneously.

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A03: Lateralisation changes with age

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Szaflasrki - found language became more lateralised to the left with age in children. But after 25 it decreased

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