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Unit 2 - Module 13: The Brain - Damage Response and Brain Hemispheres
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- 1Unit Two - Module 13 The Brain: Damage Response and Brain HemispheresThe Brain:
Damage Response and Brain Hemispheres
- 2neurogenesisThe process by which new neurons are formed in the brain.
- 3split brainA condition resulting from surgery that isolates the brain's two hemispheres by cutting the fibres in the corpus callosum connecting them.
- 4corpus callosumThe large band of neural fibres connecting the brain hemispheres and carrying messages between them.
- 5Roger SperryAmerican neuropsychologist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his work with split-brain research. His research increased our understanding of the lateralization of brain function.
- 6Michael GazzanigaOne of the world's leading researchers in cognitive neuroscience. He has made important advances in our understanding of functional lateralization in the brain and how the cerebral hemispheres communicate with one another.
- 7brain lateralizationEach brain hemisphere has its own distinct functions, known as lateralization.
The left hemisphere appears to dominate the functions of speech, language processing and comprehension, and logical reasoning, while the right is more dominant in spatial tasks like vision-independent object recognition.
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- Grade 12 Psychology (Unit Two - Biological Bases of Behaviour) FlashCards sobre Unit 2 - Module 13: The Brain - Damage Response and Brain Hemispheres, criado por Greg MacPherson em 19-11-2021.
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