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14955248493lateralizationthe development of specialized functioning in each hemisphere of the brain or in the side of the body which each controls.0
14955248494left hemisphereAccidents, strokes, and tumors in which hemisphere can impair reading, writing, speaking, arithmetic reasoning, and understanding?1
14955248495corpus callosumThe large band of neural fibers connecting the two brain hemispheres and carrying messages between them.2
14955248496split brainA condition resulting from surgery that isolates the brain's two hemispheres by cutting the fibers (mainly those of the corpus callosum) connecting them.3
14955248497Vogel and BogenWho speculated that major epileptic seizures were caused by an amplification of abnormal brain activity bouncing back and force, so they severed the corpus callosum to stop the seizures?4
14955248498to your right hemisphereWhere does information from the left half of your field of vision go?5
14955248499to your left hemisphereWhere does information from the right half of your visual field go?6
14955248500Sperry and GazzanigaWho could send information to a patient's left or right hemisphere, quizzing each hemisphere individually?7
14955248501GazzanigaWho held an experiment in which he asked people to stare at a dot as he flashed "HE-ART" on a screen?8
14955248502in their left visual field which transmits to the right hemisphereWhere did the HE appear?9
14955248503in their right visual field which transmits to the left hemisphereWhere did the ART appear?10
14955248504left hemisphereWhen the "two minds" are at odds, which hemisphere does mental gymnastics to rationalize reactions it does not understand?11
14955248505perceptual; rightWhen a person performs a ______ task, brain waves, bloodflow, and glucose consumption reveal increases in the ____ hemisphere12
14955248506leftWhen a person speaks or calculates, activity increases in the ________ hemisphere13
14955248507the patient's right arm falls limp and the patient will be speechless until the drug wears offWhat happens if a sedative is administered to the left hemisphere?14
14955248508the left arm will fall limpWhat happens if a sedative is administered to the right hemisphere?15
14955248509trueTrue or False: Just as hearing people usually use the left hemisphere to process speech, deaf people use the left hemisphere to process sign language16
14955248510left hemisphereWhich hemisphere is adept to making quick, literal interpretations of language?17
14955248511right hemisphereWhich hemisphere excels in making inferences?18
14955248512right hemisphereWhich hemisphere helps us modulate our speech?19
14955248513right hemisphereWhich hemisphere helps orchestrate our sense of self?20
14955248514consciousnessour awareness of ourselves and our environment21
14955248515consciousnessWhat helps us act in our long-term interests rather than merely seeking short-term pleasure and avoiding pain?22
14955248516consciousnessWhat promotes our survival by anticipating how we seem to others and helping us read their minds?23
14955248517cognitive neuroscienceThe interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language24
14955248518dual processingThe principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks25
14955248519Milner and GoodaleWho dealt with a woman, who overcome by carbon monoxide, was unable to recognize and discriminate objects visually?26
14955248520a visual perception trackWhat enables us "to think about the world"-to recognize and to plan future actions?27
14955248521visual action trackWhat guides our moment to moment movements?28
14955248522hollow face illusionWhat showed that people will mistakenly perceive the inside of a mask as a protruding face?29
14955248523sequential processingWhat processing is skilled at solving new problems?30
14955248524parallelWhat processing is unconscious?31
14955248525sequentialWhich processing is conscious?32

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