Split Brain Research

Question 1

Hemispheric lateralisation

Answer 1

Some mental processes in the brain are mainly specialised either in the left or right hemisphere. Language is specialised to the left and visual-motor task on the right

Question 2

Contralateral

Answer 2

The opposite side of the body to the brain hemisphere that controls it

Question 3

Corpus callosum

Answer 3

Broad band of fibres that joins the two hemispheres of the brain and allows communication to occur and to operate independently

Question 4

Split Brian research

Answer 4

A series of studies which began in the 1960’s involving epileptic patients who had experienced a surgical separation of hemispheres of the brain. This allowed researchers to investigate the extent to which brain function is lateralised.

Question 5

Lateralisation

Answer 5

The tendency for some neural functions or cognitive processes to be specialised to be on the left or right hemisphere