split brain research into hemispheric lateralisation

Question 1

Hemispheric lateralisation

Answer 1

-The idea that the two hemispheres of the brain are functionally different. Some mental processes in the brain are mainly specialised to the left or right hemisphere

Question 2

Corpus callousm

Answer 2

-A broad band of fibres that joins the two hemispheres of the brain, this allows communication to occur.

Question 3

Split brain research

Answer 3

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

Question 4

describing what you see

Answer 4

• If it is presented in the left visual field, they cannot describe what is seen. This is due to the lack of language centres in the right hemisphere.