ANAT 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Basal Ganglia, Episodic Memory, Retina
4 Oct 2016
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In split brain patients, the right and left cerebral hemispheres act independently of each other: reveals a lot about the organization of the cortex. These patients seemed and felt pretty normal: more careful analysis revealed specific deficits. If an object is on the left side of a person and the person is staring straight ahead, the image will be sent to the right side of the brain exclusively. It turns out that in some patients, the right side of the brain does have limited language function - can recognize individual words. The experimenters would show a word laugh to the right hemisphere; the patient would start laughing. Lot of what we do on a daily basis is automated. Reading 1: bullmore and sporns, 2012: why is the cortex organized into functionally distinct areas, why are functional areas topographically organized, why is the cortex organized into functional columns, a paper that proposes explanations to these questions.
