Hemispheric Lateralisation

• Hemispheric Lateralisation

  The idea that two half's of the brain are functionally different and that each hemisphere has functional specialisations
• Left hemisphere specialty

  Dominant for language
• Right hemisphere specialty

  Excels at visual motor tasks
• What are the two hemispheres connected through

  Nerve fibres called the corpus callosum
• Corpus Callosum


  Facilitates inter hemispheric communication, allowing the right and the left to communicate with one another