Split Brian Research

Question 1

What is a hemispheric lateralisation?

Answer 1

Corpus collision is cut in order to split left and right hemisphere of brain

Question 2

What is the left side responsible for?

Answer 2

Speech production

Question 3

What is the right side for?

Answer 3

Facial recognition

Question 4

What happened in split brain research?

Answer 4

Picture of an object is shown in a patients right visual field and the patient can describe what is seen. However if same object shown of left visual field the patient typically reported that there was nothing there. Although they were able to select a matching object from a grab bag using their left hand.

Question 5

Sorry and gazzaniga split brain research

Answer 5

.11 split brain patients in lab conditions were asked to fixate on a fit in the centre of a screen of information (word or image) was presented to either the left or right vsf for 1/10 of a second
.they were then asked to make repossess with left hand and their right hand or verbally m without being able to see what their hands were doing

Question 6

What are strengths of split brain research (sperry)

Answer 6

. High control (quasi experiment)
. Pioneering research

Question 7

What are the limitations of sperrys research

Answer 7

. Low population validity only 11

Question 8

What are strengths of hemispheric lateralisation

Answer 8

. Supported by case study of TAN

Question 9

What are limitations of hemispheric lateralisation

Answer 9

. Contradictory evidence of language
. Individual difference
. Oversimplify the functional distinction between left and right hemisphere