Unit 2 Terms- Hemispheric Differences

Question 1

How can the 2 hemispheres’ differences be studied?

Answer 1

• Interference Task
• Fmri
• Sedative to one side
• Damage to one side and observe
• Split Brain Procedure (chop chop corpus callosum)

Question 2

Summarize the split brain experiments

Answer 2

Assuming you did great

Question 3

Specialized Functions of right brain?

Answer 3

• perceptual tasks
• inferences
• vary tone + pitch speech
• visual perception
• recognizing emotion
• controlling left side of body

Question 4

Specialized Functions of left brain?

Answer 4

• math calculations
• production of speech
• literal interpretations
• controlling right side of body

Question 5

Dual Processing

Answer 5

Brain has 2 tracks
- Unconscious Track: activity that occurs in the brain (firing of neurons, workings of lobes, etc)
- Conscious Track: being aware of our surroundings, thoughts, feelings, etc

Question 6

Blind Sight

Answer 6

A disconnect between the two tracks of our brain
- responding to stimuli without consciously being aware of it

ex. avoiding things in a hallway w/o actually being aware of seeing them

Question 7

Parallel Processing

Answer 7

doing multiple things we know really well at the same time (driving)