PSYC 2240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Lip Reading, Grey Matter, Dyslexia

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Left brain controls right side of body + vice versa, with exception of trunk + facial muscles. Corpus callosum: set of axons in which the left and right hemispheres exchange information. Visual field: what is visual at any moment. Light from right half of visual field strikes left half of each retina + vice versa. Left half of each retina connects to left hemisphere + vice versa. Optic chiasm: area where axons from each eye cross to the opposite side of the brain. Epilepsy: condition characterized by repeated episodes of excessive synchronized neural activity. Focus: point in the brain where seizures begin. Surgeons may consider removal, not if person has several foci or if foci is essential for language. Split-brain people: people who have their corpus callus severed. Left hemisphere dominant for speech production in more than 95 percent of right handers, 80 percent of left handers.

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