Sperry

Question 1

What are the 7 main regions of the brain?

Answer 1

Frontal lobe
Temporal lobe
Brain stem
Spinal cord
cerebellum
occipital lobe
parietal lobe

Question 2

What is the bundle of nerves that joins the two hemispheres?

Answer 2

Corpus callosum

Question 3

What happens in the brain during an epileptic seizure?

Answer 3

Electrical activity spreads rapidly across the brain

Question 4

What was the aim of Sperrys study?

Answer 4

To investigate the effects of hemisphere deconection and to show that each hemisphere has different functions and that information on one side of the brain is not accessible to the other

Question 5

Describe the sample used in the study?

Answer 5

11 split brain patients who had already undergone treatement to cope with epilepsy

Question 6

Describe some of the tasks participants were asked to perform

Answer 6

Objects were put in one hand for identification by touch
Shown an image to one side of the visual field
Two different symbols presented simultaneously and participants were asked to draw what they saw with their left hand

Question 7

What were some of sperrys findings?

Answer 7

Language is only produced in the left hemisphere
Emotions are produced in the right hemisphere
Religion/belief is prodominately in the right hemisphere