PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Law School Admission Test, Olfactory Bulb, Occipital Lobe
10 Jan 2020
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Psyc 1010 lecture 14 notes the plasticity of the brain, right brain/left brain: Cerebral specialization and bisecting the brain: split-brain research. In a similar vein, a recent study found that 3 months of intense preparation for the. In sum, research suggests that the brain is not hard wired the way a computer is. Dumb, hemisphere, lacking any special functions or abilities: this characterization of the left and right hemispheres as major and minor partners in the brain"s work began to change in the 1960s. It all started with landmark research by roger sperry, michael gazzaniga, and their colleagues, who studied split-brain patients: individuals whose cerebral hemispheres had been surgically disconnected. In 1981 sperry received a nobel prize in physiology/ medicine for this work. In split-brain surgery, the bundle of fibers that connects the cerebral hemispheres (the corpus callosum) is cut to reduce the severity of epileptic seizures.
