Unit 3: Module 13 – Flashcards

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Lateralization
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The two hemispheres performing different functions
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Split Brain
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The two brain hemispheres were split apart by severing the corpus callosum, and the hemispheres can no longer communicate
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Corpus Callosum
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Band of neural fibers that attach the two sides of the brain together and allows the two hemispheres to communicate with each other
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Relationship between Handedness and Speech Processing:
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Most right-handed and left-handed people process speech in the left hemisphere, but some left-handed people process speech in the right hemisphere or in both hemispheres.
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Cognitive Neuroscience
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Helps show where the mind and the brain are the same and where they differ in order to understand how people are conscious or how minds work
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Consciousness
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Allows people to keep long-term goals in mind and help prepare/plan, and helps recognize danger by understanding other humans (read facial expressions)
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Dual Processing
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Having separate conscious and unconscious understandings, like 'hummingbird' vs 'hummingbird's color, speed, distance, etc)
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Hollow Face Illusion
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Shows that even if we are not consciously aware of something, we may be unconsciously aware of it.
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Left Hemisphere Functions
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- understanding speech and writing - Spontaneous speaking and writing - Control of sequence of memories - memory for words and numbers - quick literal translations - regulation of positive emotions
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Right Hemisphere Functions
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- Perceptual Tasks (big picture) - Inferences (boot, summer, ground -> camp) - allows spatial modulations (will this fit?) - face recognition and sense of self - memory for shapes and music - regulation of negative emotions
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