PSYC 211 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: G Protein–Coupled Receptor, Resting Potential, Ligand-Gated Ion Channel
19 Sep 2017
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State or quality of awareness: awareness of our thoughts, perceptions, memories and feelings. Believe to arise from neural processes: a product of the brain. White fibers that connect the two hemispheres together at a cortical level. Everything stays the same basically, except that the seizures are reduced in intensity and frequency. But we can observe the creation of two minds. Over time, the conflicts become rare the two hemispheres adapt and learn to work together. This would be hard for them at the beginning. This is done at a subcortical level (and the subcortical connections are not affected by the split brain procedures) Post-hoc answer to the actions of the right hemisphere. Language is in the left hemisphere in most people. This does not mean that the right hemisphere has no language systems at all. They can still make the association between words and objects. When the command (cid:498)laugh(cid:499) was directed to the right hemisphere of one patient, he laughed.
