Lateralisation

Question 1

Hemispheric lateralisation

Answer 1

Means two halves of brain are not the same.

Question 2

Left side

Answer 2

Is for language and speech

Question 3

Right side

Answer 3

Motor tasks and visual tasks

Question 4

What are nerve fibres called that connect both sides

Answer 4

Corpus callosum

Question 5

Epilepsy

Answer 5

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

Question 6

A03: Related to increased neural capacity

Answer 6

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.

Question 7

A03: Lateralisation changes with age

Answer 7

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