Causes the affected person to be unable to understand or produce meaningful language
Spatial neglect: condition produced by damage to the association areas of the right hemisphere
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Results in an inability to recognize objects or body parts in the left visual field
The Cerebral Hemispheres: Are You in Your Right Mind?
Cerebrum: the upper part of the brain consisting of the two hemispheres and the structures that
connect them
Split-Brain Research
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Study of patients with severed corpus callosum
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Involves sending messages to only one side of the brain
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Demonstrates right and left brain specialization
Left side of the brain
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Seems to control language, writing, logical thought, analysis, and mathematical abilities
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Processes information sequentially, and enables one to speak
Right side of the brain
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Controls emotional expression, spatial perception, recognition of faces, patterns,
melodies, and emotions
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It processes information globally and cannot influence speech
Paying Attention to Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder
Likelihood of more than one cause and more than one brain route to ADHD
Current research looking at a variety of areas
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Environmental factors such as low-level lead exposure
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Genetic influences
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Role of heredity and familial factors
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Personality factors
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- Fall '17
- John Gallimore
- Psychology
