Module 13: Brain Hemisphere Organization and Biology of Consciousness

Question 1

Corpus Callosum

Answer 1

connects the two hemispheres, carries messages between the two

Question 2

Split Brains

Answer 2

Condition resulting from the cutting of the Corpus Callosum, mostly related to stopping seizures

Question 3

Roger Sperry and Michael Gazzaniga

Answer 3

divided cats’ and monkeys’ brains to see if they could control epileptic seizures

Question 4

consciousness

Answer 4

subjective awareness of ourselves and our environment

Question 5

cognitive neuroscience

Answer 5

study of how our brain’s activity is actually linked with neural processes

Question 6

dual processing

Answer 6

principle that information is simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks

Question 7

blindsight

Answer 7

condition in which a person can respond to a visual stimulus without consciously experiencing it

Question 8

parallel processing

Answer 8

processing many aspects of a problem simultaneously

Question 9

sequential processing

Answer 9

processing one aspect of a problem at a time