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Title: The Brain
Description: These notes regard the different parts of the brain and their functions.
Description: These notes regard the different parts of the brain and their functions.
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The brain
Language: Specialization and Integration
Aphasia: impairment of language, usually caused by left-hemisphere damage either to Broca’s
area or Wernicke’s area
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(where we formulate the plan!)
Broca’s area: controls language expression; an area of the frontal lobe, usually in the left
hemisphere, directs muscle movements involved in speech
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Some neurogenesis, production of new brain cells, helps rebuild
Splitting theBrain
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
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Without the corpus callosum, the halves of the body and the halves of the visual field do
not work together
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Split visual field
Each hemisphere perceives the half of the view in front of you that goes with the half of the body
that is controlled by that hemisphere
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How do we know about these differences?
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Brain damage studies revealed many functions of the left hemisphere
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Right-Left Hemisphere Differences
Left Hemisphere
Right Hemisphere
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Thoughts and logic
Feelings and intuition
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Language: words and definitions
Language: tone, inflection, context
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Pieces and details
Wholes, including the self
Title: The Brain
Description: These notes regard the different parts of the brain and their functions.
Description: These notes regard the different parts of the brain and their functions.