neuropsych

• temp lobe?

  hearing , language , memory
• frontal lobe? 


  make decisions
• parietal lobe?


  sensory processing
• occipital lobe?


  Vision
• cerebellum?


  walking, writing, balanced
• left hemisphere?


  language, reading etc
• right hemisphere?


  Creativity
• neurotransmitter?

  chemical messengers
• synaptic transmission?


  refers to how the nervous system transmits info across a synaptic gap
• visual agnosia


  a condition that affects how your brain processes what you see
• prosopagnosia?


   a condition where you have difficulty recognising people's faces.
• damasio et al aim

  create a 3d replica of gages skull to see where the iron rod passed through and see see what possible damage was done
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  damisio et al method

  gages skull was photographed to provide an x ray giving precise measurements, which could then be used to build the 3d replica of his skull. this included possible entry and exit holes
• damaiso et al results

  found damage to the left and right hemisphere of the frontal lobe, rod passed through left eye socket damaging most the white matter in the left hemisphere
• sperry aims

  wanted to determaine whether there are diffrences between the both hemispheres
• sperry method

  a picture was presented to either left or right of visual field and the participant had to describe what they saw
• sperry results

  • when an object is displayed in the right visual field participants can describe it well in speech and writing.
  • when an object is presented in the left visual field they struggled to saw what they saw.
  • objects placed in right hand, participants described it clearly in speech and writing.
  • objects placed in left hand , they were unable too and had to make guesses.