SPERRY

Question	Answer
BIOLOGICAL AREA: SPERRY AIM?	investigate LATERALISATION OF FUNCTIONS in BRAIN.
IV AND DV?	IV = hemisphere deconnection or not DV = task performance (visual/tactile)
DESCRIBE THE SAMPLE:	11 split brain patients all have epilepsy oppotunity sample case study as theyre studied in depth
DESCRIBE THE PROCEDURE IN THE VISUAL TASK	had to name and draw image P's were shown an image on a screen for 1/10th second so only goes to one hemisphere LVF = no language RVF = can name it
DESCRIBE THE TACTILE TASK:	p's had to name object in one hand then select from bag. cant see whats in hand each hand acts independently when finding objects in bag.
strengths	p's studied in-depth - useful for rare cases QUALITATIVE DATA COLLECTED
WEAKENSSES	cant generalise it - only epeleptic RESEARCHER BIAS- CASE-STUDY small sample size

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	Created by Aisha Sajjad almost 7 years ago