Week 11: Lateralization & Language Flashcards
Division of labor between the two brain hemisphere
Lateralization
True or false.
Left hemisphere connects skin receptors and muscles of the right side of the body, while the right hemisphere connects the skin receptors and muscles on the left side of the body
True.
Left hemisphere = right muscles of the body. Right hemisphere= left muscles of the body
Sets axons that exchange information from the left and right hemisphere and coordinate movement on both sides
Corpus callosum
True or false.
Left visual field = left half of the retina = left hemisphere.
Right visual field = right half of the retina = right hemisphere.
False.
Left visual field = right half of the retina = right hemisphere.
Right visual field = left half of the retina = left hemisphere.
____ is a brain region in the temporal lobe that corresponds to Wernicke’s area involved in speech processing, with pitch processing representing nonlexical musical abilities
Planum temporale (Geschwind & Levitsky, 1968; From: Music and the Aging Brain, 2020.)
It dominant for speech production
Left hemisphere
It does not produce speech but understands it
Right hemisphere
Basta opposite and tingin ng left and right hemisphere page dating sa mata
Huh?? Okay yes, duling brain natin
Light from the visual fields strikes the left/right half of the _______ that connects to the right/left hemisphere
The Retina
When the right hemisphere does something, the left hemisphere doesn’t know why, it invents an explanation
Split hemisphere
The tendency of the left hemisphere to invent and defend explanations for actions even when it is unconscious
Interpreter
Those who struggle to use hands on tasks that have not previously practiced after they have undergone brain surgery to the corpus callosum
Split-brain syndrome