PSYCH 111 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Scientific American
17 May 2016
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Original place of publication: scientific american, 217(2), 24-29: questions addressed in original study: (list the 2 5 most important questions addressed in the original study) Would you still be able to speak: findings of original study: (list the 2 5 most important findings of the original study) Patients were only limited to visually perceiving lights/objects on only one side of their brain. In this scenario, the right side of sight only caught the objects, thus only left side of the brain was functioning. For you to say you saw something, the object has to have been seen by the left side of your brain. Right hemisphere is able to comprehend language, but in a nonverbal way: extensions of original study (list the 2 5 most important advances made by subsequent research in this area) Right hemisphere of the brain cannot produce verbal words. Spatial relationships and shapes were performed with greater proficiency by the left hand.
