LINGUIST 2PS3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Commissurotomy, Amatol, Wada Test

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LINGUIST 2PS3
• Professor: Catherine Anderson

Document Summary

Obeys the laws of nature, physical thing, the self or soul has no physical substance. Brain subject to scientific study but mind has no physical substance and thus it"s the province of the church. Science contradicted christianity laws in many ways. Mind an emergent property of the organization of the brain. A useful way of talking about the jobs that occur in the brain abstract and higher level of rep. Most people are lateralized in ls for language. Wada test: inject brain with sodium amatol in one of the hemispheres which results in paralysis to test various functions of lateralization. Commissurotomy: severs the hemispheres and common in epileptic patients to undergo. Only say the word that was processed in left hemisphere but couldn"t process anything from ls to right hemisphere to produce lang processing due to split. Know the general functions! (eg. occipital lobe visual processing)