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Chapter 2 Ap Psych PPT 2015 Slides 76-86

This document contains slides from a neuroscience and behavior chapter about the divided brain. It discusses how the brain is divided into two hemispheres, with the left hemisphere typically dominating functions like language processing. It describes split brain patients whose corpus callosum was severed, meaning objects in their left and right visual fields could not both be named. Studies of split brain patients and brain scans of intact brains both show left-right hemispheric specialization in mental abilities. Genetics and prenatal factors are thought to influence handedness.

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Chapter 2 Ap Psych PPT 2015 Slides 76-86

This document contains slides from a neuroscience and behavior chapter about the divided brain. It discusses how the brain is divided into two hemispheres, with the left hemisphere typically dominating functions like language processing. It describes split brain patients whose corpus callosum was severed, meaning objects in their left and right visual fields could not both be named. Studies of split brain patients and brain scans of intact brains both show left-right hemispheric specialization in mental abilities. Genetics and prenatal factors are thought to influence handedness.

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SLIDES 76 - 86

NEUROSCIENCE
AND BEHAVIOR
CHAPTER 2
Ms. Mitchell
AP Psychology

PG. 83 -OUR DIVIDED BRAIN


Our brain is divided into two hemispheres.
The left hemisphere processes reading,
writing, speaking, mathematics, and
comprehension skills. In the 1960s, it was
termed as the dominant brain.

SPLITTING THE BRAIN


A procedure in which the two hemispheres of the brain
are isolated by cutting the connecting fibers (mainly
those of the corpus callosum) between them.

Martin M. Rother

Courtesy of Terence Williams, University of Iowa

Corpus Callosum

SPLIT BRAIN PATIENTS


With the corpus callosum severed, objects
(apple) presented in the right visual field can be
named. Objects (pencil) in the left visual field
cannot.

DIVIDED CONSCIOUSNESS

THE DIVIDED BRAIN MODULE 5

http://www.learner.org/vod/v
od_window.html?pid=1573

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN FRONTIERS, 2ND ED.,


SEGMENT 7: SEVERED CORPUS CALLOSUM

TRY THIS!
Try drawing one shape with your left hand and
one with your right hand, simultaneously.

BBC

NON-SPLIT BRAINS
People with intact brains also show left-right
hemispheric differences in mental abilities.
A number of brain scan studies show normal
individuals engage their right brain when
completing a perceptual task and their left brain
when carrying out a linguistic task.

BRAIN ORGANIZATION &


HANDEDNESS
Is handedness inherited? Yes. Archival and
historic studies, as well as modern medical
studies, show that the right hand is
preferred. This suggests genes and/or
prenatal factors influence handedness.

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IS IT ALRIGHT TO BE LEFT
HANDED?
Being left handed is difficult in a righthanded world.

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IS IT ALRIGHT TO BE LEFT
HANDED?
The percentage of left-handed individuals
decreases sharply in samples of older
people
(Coren, 1993).

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