Unit 3 - 9: NDEs And Lateralization

Question 1

Split brain patients

Answer 1

Help us understand brain lateralization

Question 2

Left brain (1)

Answer 2

1. Language

Question 3

Right brain (4)

Answer 3

1. Spatial processing
2. Face perception
3. Prosody (emotional context, tone of voice)
4. Music experience

Question 4

Prosopagnosia

Answer 4

Face blindness, cannot recognize own face/ faces of others (both hemispheres but most right)

Question 5

Fusiform gyrus

Answer 5

Upper side of brain, helps us recognize faces and individual items

Question 6

Damage to fusiform gyrus

Answer 6

1. Prosopagnosia
2. Agnosias (unable to recognize individual objects from a large set)