PSYB65H3 Lecture Notes - Planum Temporale, Dichotic Listening Test, Model Car
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100% with damage in left hemi = language problems; handedness seems to affect where your language is and how important the left hemi is; if you are lhed, if you have problems, you tend to recover from them. Western language) brain processes language in diff ways depending on structure of language. Acallosal: born without corpus callosum, 2 hemis not connected, seems to be genetic, appears in small communities, have language on both sides of their brains as adults whether you"re right handed or left handed doesn"t matter; But it appears that left hemi (at least in right-handed ppl) is dominant for language (better-equipped for language). Split brain patients: present an object (picture not word) visually to the right hemisphere a. No, because you are presenting it to the non-verbal hemisphere and you are talking to the verbal left hemisphere which didn"t see anything.