PSYC 1100 Lecture 9: Psych 2_19_19

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: Harvey Swadlow

Document Summary

Left hemisphere controls right side of body, vice versa. Lot of functional symmetry, but also functional asymmetry of hemispheres. Damage to left frontal lobe slightly below motor cortex: Difficulty for individual to speak and write. Theory: broca"s area stores information that turns words into muscle actions needed to produce the words. Damage to the left temporal lobe, near auditory cortex: Can speak fluently, but words are incomprehensible. Theory: wernicke"s area converts sensory analysis performed by auditory cortex into comprehensible words. Language functions aren"t always controlled by left hemisphere. Split brain studies- cutting off the corpus callosum to split hemispheres. Epilepsy- seizure would start in one hemisphere and spread to the other, this was used as a treatment. By limiting information to one hemisphere and see how the information is processed. Corpus callosum takes information from one hemisphere and shares it with the other.