PSYCH 133B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psych, Conduct Disorder, Dendrite
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Most cognitive development research does not consider the brain directly. How is the brain studied: autopsies, injuries, split brain patients, lesions, fmri, eeg/erp, meg. Splitting the brain: split brain: the corpus callosum is cut in surgery, they are operating independently but with the same goal, working independently without noticing it, left hemisphere: better with language. Right side of the vision field is controlled by the left hemisphere: right hemisphere: better with spatial relationships. Left side of the vision field is controlled by the right hemisphere: split brain studies, split brain patients. Left hemisphere controls the language able to verbally name ring but unable to name key (unable to do the things in his left side: right hemisphere controls the hand pick up the key. Brain lesions: physical damage to the brain, what is different, missing, or atypical to the normal cognitive function.
