split brain research into hemispheric lateralisation

Question 1

what is hemispheric lateralisation?

Answer 1

certain functions of the brain are dominated by one hemisphere of the brain
- e.g. language = usually controlled by the left hemisphere

Question 2

sperrys 1968

Answer 2

• studying epileptics all of whom had undergone commissurotomy = corpus callosum and other tissues which connect the two hemispheres were cut down the middle in order to separate the two hemispheres and control frequent and severe epileptic seizures