AO3 split brain research

Question 1

What is a strength of split brain research?

Answer 1

Split brain research uses scientific methods so uses scientific enquiry

Question 2

Split brain research uses scientific methods because it is based on…

Answer 2

objective and empirical techniques such as controlled labratory settings. These are used to identify which hemisphere of the brain is responsible for which task.

Question 3

What did split brain’s scientific research find?

Answer 3

Patients were only able to say what they saw when the image was presented to the right visual field, which suggests the left hemisphere is activated during language tasks

Question 4

What is one limitation of split brain research?

Answer 4

There may be individual differences between how severed the patients corpus callosum was severed

Question 5

RTC hemispheric lateralisation was conducted on…

Answer 5

Patient EB who suffered brain damage which resulted in her entire left hemisphere being removed

Question 6

What did patient EB manage to regain?

Answer 6

EB managed to gain some language ability which would not be possible if the brain was completely lateralised