PSYC 1010 Lecture 8: Lecture 8

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Biological perspective to understand behavior we must examine the brain and the nervous system. Cerebral cortex the thin layer between the brain and skull. Left hemisphere usually referred to as the dominant hemisphere, although not true for everybody. Even for right handed people because language is from the left hemisphere. Split brain patients these patients literally had their brain split in half. In severe cases of epilepsy, the brain is split by severing the corpuscallosum (center of the brain). Right hemisphere of the brain controls the left side of the body, eg moving left hand etc. and. Right hemisphere the artsy side of things. In a lot of cases both hemispheres are usually involved. Corpuscallosum is not able to help the communication between two sides if it is severed. For example, seeing a spoon but not being able to describe or say what it is. Stan coren left handedness is related to pathological occurrence during fetal development or birth.