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pysch U3M13
hemisphere organization and consciousness
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| cognitive neuroscience | the study of the brain activity linked with cognition (perception, thinking, speech) |
| dual processing | information is processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks (a system having more than one function; one function can be impaired but another function associated with the same system can still work) |
| corpus callosum | Neural fibers that connect the 2 brain hemispheres and carry messages between them. |
| contralateral | Left hemisphere controls right side, right hemisphere controls left side (US) |
| ipsilateral | same-side controls; left controls left, right controls right |
| functions of Left hemisphere | (Logic) speech, reading, writing, problem solving |
| functions of right hemisphere | (ARTISTIC) spatial and pattern sense, creativity, emotion, recognizing faces, places, objects |
| what are split-brain patients | ppl w/their corpus callosum cut because of epilepsy. personality and intellect not affected, but they have separate minds>>can do 2 things at once but minds do not work with each other. |
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