A03

• What is one strength of research on connected brains?

  Two hemispheres process information differently
• What did Gereon Fink et al. (1996) use to study brain activity?

  PET scans during a visual processing task
• What happens in the right hemisphere (RH) when attending to global elements of an image?

  Regions of the RH are much more active
• What occurs in the left hemisphere (LH) when focusing on finer details?

  Specific areas of the LH tend to dominate
• What does hemispheric lateralisation suggest about visual processing?

  It is a feature of both connected and split-brain
• What is one limitation regarding the roles of the LH and RH?

  The idea of LH as analyser and RH as synthesiser may be wrong
• What did Jared Nielsen et al. (2013) analyze in their research?

  Brain scans from over 1000 people
• What age range did Nielsen et al. (2013) study in their analysis?

  People aged 7 to 29 years
• What did Nielsen et al. (2013) find regarding brain hemisphere usage?

  People used certain hemispheres for certain tasks
• What conclusion can be drawn about the notion of right- or left-brained people?

  The notion of dominant brain sides is wrong