discuss reseacrh into localisation and split brain studies

hemispheric lateralisation - the 2 halves of the brain are functionally different e.g left half specialises language wheras right - motor visual tasks sperry + gazzaniga (1967) - commisurotomy - corpus collosum - nerve fibres connecting 2 halves of brain so they can communicate - cut - to control epileptic seizures procedure - sperry and gazzaniga 1967 tachistascope - image/ word projected to patients right visual field (processed by left hemisphere) - non split brian corpus callosum would share info between both hemispheres to reflect a comlete visual field - split brain - info could not be shared between hemispheres - right visual field objects described easily - left visual field ppts couldn't describe what they'd seen lack of adept language centres in right hemisphere :) produced significant findings - left hemisphere - analytical and verbal - right hemisphere - spatial taks and music -- hplistic approach to language AO2 just broca's and wernicke's area :( nomothetic laws made of small sample size - all 11 ppts had epilepsy - unique changes in the brain - influenced findings - compared to cont group w no epilepsy - confoundign avriable + drug therapy? sperry - matching faces experiment - right hemisphere dominant in facial recognition - macthing face from series of others - picture processed by right hemisphere selected most of the time ... left hemisphere dominated in desc the face strength in methodology :) - standardised procedures - reliability and replicability - controlled lab experiment :( pop psychological lit - over simplifying fucntional distinction between left and right hemisphere .. modern neuroscientists argue the distinction is less clean cut e.g plasticity - hemispheres of brain constantly communicate performing everyday tasks - behaviours associated w one hemisphere can be effectively perfomed by the other when the situation requires Sets found in the same folder definitions of abnormality 12 terms Profile Picture Kezzierose discuss research on the influence of early at… 12 terms Profile Picture Kezzierose discuss ways of studying the brain (16 marks) 13 terms Profile Picture Kezzierose outline and evaluate agentic state and legtim… 19 terms Profile Picture Kezzierose