PSY BEH 11A Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Myelin, Peripheral Nervous System, Commissurotomy

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Psychology and Social Behavior
• Course: PSY BEH 11A
• Professor: Dan Hoffman

Document Summary

Time is key component of sperry experiments. Made it hard for the split brain to compensate. Connection between hemispheres left after split brain procedure. Takes more time than corpus callosum would have. Emotional information able to pass through this avenue. Ex. when right hemisphere of split brain patient shown a fire -> left hemisphere able to express discomfort & negative feeling but cannot tell you why. Bundle of axons that connect the two hemispheres. What is severed during split brain surgery. In female brains -> speech is more bilaterally organized. Left hemisphere works to make sense of all actions. After a woman has a stroke -> more able to produce speech if damage in left hemisphere than a male patient would be. If stroke occurs in the left hemisphere -> patient tends to be unhappy & cruder (will swear more since is emotional speech) If stroke occurs in the right hemisphere -> patients tends to be happier.