PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Parietal Lobe, Superior Frontal Sulcus, Two-Streams Hypothesis
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Spatial ability: ability to understand space and process spatial information. Space construct of real space ( what you sense right now) and imagined space ( space you think about when you cannot directly experience it right now) Most common belief: left hemisphere for language and right for spatial. From hughlins jackson paper: on nature of duality of brain. Much support for this, but there are exceptions where lesion to left of bilateral damage. Most basic spatial ability: ability to localize point in space. Localize point: need to know where point is absolutely and relative position of point. Need depth perception: whether point occupies same location as another point. Neurologically normal identify location of dot more readily in left visual field. Shows superiority of right hemisphere for processing spatial location. Pet studies: right hemisphere involved in recall of spatial location info. Depth perception: vary basic ability used determine relative position of object.
