Split Brain Research AO3

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chloe denton

Cards (11)

  • SCIENTIFIC - Standardised procedures, well controlled (Nobel prize!)
  • Only 11 participants in the group with no epilepsy (confounding variable?)
  • Corpus callosum not cut to the same extent in all participants
  • Some participants may have had communication
  • NOT UNIVERSALLY SUPPORTED TURK studied RH
  • Patient JW-LH damaged- but learned to speak using
  • Criticises Sperry
  • Sperry ARTIFICIAL - in real life: both VF would be wed to compensate
  • Brains change and develop as a result of experience
  • OVERSIMPLIFIES (hemispheric lateralisation - human brains have plasticity (LASHLEY demonstrated this with EQUIPOTENTIALITY theory)
  • Some application to real life (karen Byrne and ALIEN HAND SYNDROME)