PSYC 305L Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ct Scan, Corpus Callosum, Trauma Ii
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Lateralization, commissures, one of the thick bundles of fibers via which information is sent back and forth between the two cerebral hemispheres. Allows both halves of the brain to work together: corpus callosum. Spatial judgment and numbers are in the left hemisphere: data from neuropsychology, neuropsychology: the study of the brain"s structures and how they relate to brain function. Patients are usually studied after being diagnosed with some form of brain damage or trauma. The goal of this is to understand the functioning of intact, undamaged brains by carefully scrutiny of cases involving brain damage: lesion. A specific area of tissue damage: data from neuroimaging, computerized axial tomography (ct scans) A neuroimaging technique that uses x-rays to construct a precise three- dimensional image of the brain"s anatomy. Tells us shape, size and position of the structures within the brain: positron emission tomography (pet scans)
