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Cerebral Commissures tracts that connect the left and right cerebral hemispheres lateralization of function differences in function between two sides of the brain split-brain patients patients whose corpus callosums have been cut commissurotomy procedure in which the commissural axons of...

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Psychology as a Natural Science Exam
1 Questions and Correct Answers the
Latest Update and Recommended
Version
Cerebral Commissures

✓ tracts that connect the left and right cerebral hemispheres


lateralization of function

✓ differences in function between two sides of the brain


split-brain patients

✓ patients whose corpus callosums have been cut


commissurotomy

✓ procedure in which the commissural axons of the corpus callosum (and often anterior
commissure) are severed such that the cortical regions of the two brain hemispheres
cannot communicate; commonly called the "split brain" procedure


Paul Broca

✓ discovered area in the brain (named for him) in the left frontal lobe responsible for
language production


Aphasia

✓ impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage either to Broca's area
(impairing speaking) or to Wernicke's area (impairing understanding).



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Broca's Area

✓ speech production


apraxia

✓ impairment of the ability to perform purposeful acts or to use objects properly


dominant hemisphere

✓ left hemisphere


minor hemisphere

✓ right hemisphere


sodium amytal test

✓ Involves injecting the anesthetic sodium amytal into either the left or right carotid artery in
the neck - usually used to determine the dominant language hemisphere prior to brain
surgery


dichotic listening test

✓ Noninvasive test; administered to healthy individuals. 3 pairs of spoken digits are
presented through earphones, the digits of each pair are presented simultaneously, one to
each ear.


dextrals

✓ right handed people


sinestrals



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✓ left handed people


corpus callosum

✓ The large band of neural fibers connecting the two brain hemispheres and carrying
messages between them.


Roger Sperry

✓ like Gaaniga, studied split brain patients; showed that left/right hemispheres have
different functionszz


scotoma

✓ blind spot in vision


cross-cuing

✓ Nonneural communication between hemispheres that have been separated by
commissurotomy.


helping-hand phenomenon

✓ The redirection of one hand of a split-brain patient by the other hand.


visual completion

✓ The completion or filling in of a scotoma by the brain.


chimeric figures test

✓ A test of visual completion in split-brain subject that uses pictures composed of the left
and right halves of two different faces



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