PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Synaptic Pruning, Prefrontal Cortex, Psych
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01/21/2015 (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Relied upon heavily by teenagers (compared to prefrontal cortex) Left hemisphere verbal (process the more positive emotions: language, problem-solving, planning. Wernicke"s area comprehension of speech: controls the right side of the body. Right hemisphere non verbal (more negative emotions processed by this side: visual-spartial (reading a map, assembling puzzles, copying drawings, face recognition), musical tasks, perception of emotion, controls the left side of the body. Excellent communication between halves corpus callosum, not aware of asymmetry. Right hemisphere references the left side to verbally describe what is being processed in the left visual field. Asymmetry/specialization is much more apparent: ex: right half of brain can no longer quickly reference the left half for language related tasks research looks @ A golfball is put into his left hand and he does not see it. Bill will . not be able to describe it. (cid:1) Twin studies: fraternal vs identical twins.
