Split Brain research Flashcards
1
Q
How does the ‘normal vision’ system work?
A
Normal everything you see in left visual field is sent to the right hemisphere, and everything you see in your right visual field is sent to the left hemisphere.
2
Q
What is information shared via, for the two cerebral hemispheres?
A
Via the corpus collosum that connects the two
3
Q
Which two psychologists studied patients who had been treated for epilepsy by cutting their corpus callosum’s ?
A
Roger Sperry and Michael Gazzaniga
4
Q
What did Roger Sherry and Michael Gazzaniga do (1967) test?
A
Studied patients who had been treated for epilepsy by cutting their corpus callosums.
