Studies 2

Question 1

Dougherty

Answer 1

44 ocd patients who had undergone cingulotomy 30% successful response 14% partial response LOCALISATION

Question 2

Petersen

Answer 2

Used brain scans to show how wernicke area in temporal was active during listening task and broca in frontal during reading task LOCALISATION

Question 3

Buckner + petersen

Answer 3

Revealed that semantic and episodic memories reside in different parts of prefrontal cortex LOCALISATION

Question 4

Lashley

Answer 4

Removed areas of cortex in rats who were learning route of maze. Found no area was more important and all were important. Higher cognitive processes aren’t localised but holistic LOCALISATION

Question 5

Dick and themblay

Answer 5

2% of modern researchers think language is completely controlled by broca and wernicke areas.LOCALISATION

Question 6

fink

Answer 6

pet scans to identify areas active in visual processing task. RH active when attending to global elements and LH when focusing on finer detail LATERALISATION

Question 7

nielsen

Answer 7

analysed brain scans and found people did use certain hemispheres for certain tasks but no dominant side LATERALISATION

Question 8

rogers

Answer 8

lateralised chickens could look for food whilst watching for predators LATERALISATION

Question 9

phineas gage

Answer 9

pole through frontal lobe caused bad temperment showed it was responsible for mood LOCALISATION

Question 10

draganski

Answer 10

chemistry students 3 months before and after final exams larger grey matter in parietal cortex and hippocampus

Question 11

maguire

Answer 11

cab drivers larger grey matter in hippocampus responsible for visual spatial infomation development

Question 12

gazzaniga

Answer 12

split ps actually perform better on some tasks eg. odd one out

Question 13

sperry procedure

Answer 13

11 split brain ps who had corpus callosum severed tested projectibg images to LVF and RVF

Question 14

sperry findings

Answer 14

if shown to RVF could describe it

if shown to LVF could match it with left hand