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What is the corpus callosum responsible for?
Carrying messages between the left and right hemispheres
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Why did the participants have split brain surgery?
They were suffering from life threatening epilepsy
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How many participants were there in Sperry's study?
11
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Was Sperry's study a
Quasi
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Did Sperry's study take place in 1968?
True
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When flashed a dollar sign in the LVF & a question mark in RVF...
Participants drew a dollar sign but said she saw a question mark other answers
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What types of data were collected?
Quantitative and qualitative
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What is split brain surgery called?
A commissurotomy
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What is the division of tasks between the hemispheres called?
Lateralisation of function
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What was the aim of the study?
To investigate the effects of hemisphere deconnection and to show that each hemisphere has different functions.
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How were the hemisphere's connected?
Hemispheres are joined at the base by commissural fibres
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What hemisphere controls the left nostril?
Left hemisphere
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Who first discovered that the left hemisphere was responsible for language?
Broca
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Which hemisphere is responsible for language/
Left
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Where is information from the left eye possessed?
Both hemispheres
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What is the independent variable in this study?
Whether the person has undergone split brain surgery or not
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What pathway between the two hemispheres had been split in ALL of the patients?
The corpus collosum
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Visual stimuli were flashed on the screen for...
0.1 seconds
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Split brain patients had...
Problems with short term memory and short attention spans
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The participants gave an emotional response (giggle) if a photograph of a pin-up was displayed to the...
Left visual field
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