Lateralization Applied Questions Flashcards
Mental imagery, the ability to understand spatial relationships, and musical and artistic abilities tend to be functions associated with what cerebral hemisphere?
Right Cerebral Hemisphere
When Judy tried to pick out with her right hand a nice dress for a job interview, her left hand grabbed her right hand and instead aimed it towards choosing a low-cut blouse. What phenomenon does this display
Helping Hand
The Mona Lisa shows a larger smile on the left side of her face (right side of the painting). What cerebral hemisphere does this support as playing the dominant role in controlling emotional facial expressions?
Right Cerebral Hemisphere
You tell a very funny joke and your friend laughs hysterically. While she is laughing, your friend�s ________ will likely show more activity because positive emotions appear to be lateralized.
Left Cerebral Hemisphere
Some people have such severe epileptic seizures that the only way to stop them is to cut the connection between the right and left hemispheres of the brain. What is this connection called?
Corpus Callosum
Dr. Kelsey is working with a split-brain patient to better understand what the different parts of the brain do. She finds that patients can�t describe what they have seen with words when words are flashed to what cerebral hemisphere
Right Cerebral Hemisphere
After Joanie hears a note, she can accurately reproduce it on her guitar without having to hunt for it. What area of her brain most likely shows a large degree of asymmetry
Planum Temporale
Language is primarily a function of what cerebral hemisphere?
Left Cerebral Hemisphere
Sally suffered a stroke and is now unable to produce speech even though she can understand it. What area of her brain did the stroke most likely damage?
Broca’s Area
If the right hemisphere provides hints to the left hemisphere as to the nature of a flashed object (a baseball bat) by making swinging motions with an arm, what type of phenomenon is this?
Cross-cuing
Individuals without damage to their brain are capable of merging right and left cerebral hemisphere functions seamlessly because of what brain structure?
corpus callosum
Anton�s grandfather had a stroke. When the family arrives at the hospital, Grandfather is unable to speak. The family gives him some paper and a pencil, but Grandfather is unable to write, either. A speech therapist explains that Grandfather probably knows what he wants to say, but the part of his brain that allows him to produce speech, _____________________, has been damaged by the stroke.
Broca’s Area
When you trip after a black cat crosses your path, what characteristic of the left hemisphere is likely to make it draw causal connections between these two distantly related events?
Interpreter
In the 2010 movie, The King’s Speech, King George VI is able to speak normally when not listening to his own speech but stutters during speeches when he focuses upon the sound of his own voice. Disturbances in the function of what brain structure may account for his difficulty in producing speech only when he is simultaneously perceiving the sound of his own language?
Arcuate Fasciculus
Roger Sperry was the first to discover how the brain would operate if the corpus callosum was severed in his __________ studies.
Split-Brain
Henry has difficulty understanding his textbook when reading it himself but has no trouble with looking at its figures or with understanding the textbook when someone else reads it to him. What area of his brain is most likely damaged?
Angular Gyrus
What cerebral hemisphere would a picture of a hairbrush need to be shown to in order for patients, with their corpus callosum severed, to be able to select, using their left hand, the object from a group of objects but not be able to verbally describe what they had seen?
Right Cerebral Hemisphere
The role of what brain structure is to allow nerve impulses to travel from one hemisphere to the other?
Corpus Callosum
A person with a severed corpus callosum is briefly shown a picture of a bird in her right visual field and after this presentation she is able to tell the experimenter that she just saw a bird. Given this information, what cerebral hemisphere can we conclude that she used to process the image of the bird?
Left Cerebral Hemisphere
Damage to what structure in the temporal lobe, would leave an individual unable to comprehend written or spoken speech?
Wernicke’s Area
The role of what brain structure is to allow nerve impulses to travel from one hemisphere to the other?
Corpus Callosum
The ability to perceive spatial relations is primarily a function of what cerebral hemisphere?
Right cerebral Hemisphere
When Tatiana writes for the school paper, is active in the mathematics club, and enjoys logic games, what cerebral hemisphere is she primarily using?
Left Cerebral Hemisphere
What cerebral hemisphere would a picture of a hairbrush need to be shown to in order for patients, with their corpus callosum severed, to be able to select, using their left hand, the object from a group of objects but not be able to verbally describe what they had seen?
Right cerebral Hemisphere
What cerebral hemisphere shows increased activation when experiencing negative emotions?
right cerebral hemisphere
Language is primarily a function of what cerebral hemisphere?
left cerebral hemisphere
Sally suffered a stroke and is now unable to produce speech even though she can understand it. What area of her brain did the stroke most likely damage?
broca’s area
