PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Parietal Lobe, Bergen Street Line, Dichotic Listening Test
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B65 lecture # 9: laterality (localization and specialization) Historical/general overview: first laterality obvs came from war (the injuries that soldiers experienced, ex. Bullet wound on the left or right side) Language is almost always on opposite side of brain as the damage. It"s actually been suggested that lefties may have had some small amount of brain damage when they were younger and that"s why their brain never lateralized. Left is just inherently more capable to begin with: between 10th to 20th week of gestation, we already show left temporal being larger. Split-brain patients: was a treatment for epilepsy that involved jacksonian marches (which let a grand mal seizure spread through corpus callosum and affect entire body) where they would sever only the corpus callosum. Visual info could not describe it verbally because right hemi is nonverbal and there was no corpus callosum for the info to be transferred. But, if they use their left hand which is controlled by.