PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Social Stigma
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The issue of whether you can teach chimps any type of language. Chimps like washo was not language it was more likely immatation/tricks. When men engage in a rhyming task the bulk of the activity occurs in the left hemisphere. Language is situated primarily on the left side of the brain. Women have some activity on the right of the brain as well (contraversial finding) Fmri (functional magnetic resonance imaging): functional aspect over time of what area of the brain if being used. What happens with fmri when we use areas of our brains, there is a deplition of the oxygen in the blood that needs to irrigate this area of the brain. When this deoxygination occurs the brain sends a signal that it needs oxyginated blood so this blood is sent to the brain and usually it sends more oxyginated blood than is needed in the area.
