CAS PS 101 Midterm: Unit 2

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Ben Wormwood

Document Summary

Brain divided into right and left hemispheres. A thick band of nerve fibers that connects areas of the cerebral cortex on each side of the brain and allows information to cross hemisphere. You can make the left hemisphere aware of something while right hemisphere isn"t. To alleviate seizures, surgeons can cut the corpus callosum, however Corpus callosum is damaged impacts motor skills. What you see on your left is processed on the right side of your brain. Right side u can see and u can speak as it goes to the left side. 4. 10 in the sensation and perception chapter for more details about how information from one visual field enters the opposite hemisphere). The hemispheres themselves are specialized for different kinds of tasks. magine that some information came into the left hemisphere of a person with a split brain, and she was asked to describe verbally what it was.