PSYC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Reading Disability, Blindsight, Sleep Paralysis

• School: Binghamton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 111
• Professor: dr.duell

Document Summary

Can still be functional if you sever it, but the connection between body and brain is different. Both hemispheres have to be able to communicate, but you"re still functional if not. Isolated by cutting the fibers connecting them. Data received by either hemisphere are quickly transmitter to the other side across the corpus callosum. Left hemisphere is good at quick, exact interpretations of language. Right hemispheres excels in making inferences, modulating speech, and. Nearly 90% of people are right-handed and process speech primarily in the left hemisphere. Universal prevalence of right-handers suggests a genetic or prenatal influence. Left-handedness more likely to have reading disabilities, allergies, and migraines, but more common among musicians, mathematicians, and many athletes and artists. Pros and cons of left-handedness seem about equal. Psychology began as a study of consciousness. By 1960"s, psychology turned into study of behaviour because observation is easier. After the 1960"s, psychologists recognized the importance of studying cognition.