[PSYC 1110] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (230 pages long!)

• School: Boston College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC1110
• Professor: Jeffrey Lamoureux

Document Summary

Function segregation (different parts have different jobs, always using all of your brain, not part of it) Many areas show bilaterality (the redundancy in the system) Right side of your body is controlled by left hemisphere (opposite side) Connect two halves of the brain (share info back and forth) Massa intermedia some have others not, don"t affect yet. Transfers learned information from one hemisphere to another. First transection of the corpus callosum in epileptics. Eplilectics seizure starts in left hemisphere, but it can pass across the whole brain. The surgeon thought to keep the right functions and cut the left - keep the electricity in only one side. Reduce the negative outcome of the seizure, maintain one side of my body. Developed experimental procedures in human to test split- brain patients. Difference for animals most left hemisphere are capable of speech, while the right aren"t (spoon apple) Most likely to tell us apple ( speech is in the left hemisphere)