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What is the corpus callosum?

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A bundle of nerve fibres that allows the two hemispheres to communicate

2
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What is hemispheric lateralisation?

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The division of functions between the two hemispheres

3
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What does the left hemisphere control?

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Language processing and visual information

4
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What does the right hemisphere control?

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Recognising emotion, spatial information and visual patterns

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What does the motor cortex do?

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Sends information to the muscles via the brain stem and spinal cord. Important for complex movements and non-basic actions, such as coughing and crying

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What are the two language areas?

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Broca’s and Wernicke’s

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What is Broca’s area important for and who was the case study for this?

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Speech production; Louis Leborgne

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What is Wernicke’s area important for?

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Speech comprehension

9
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Which disorder used to be treated with a corpus callosotomy and why?

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Epilepsy; to prevent a seizure spreading over both hemispheres, which is potentially fatal

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Where is the visual cortex located?

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The occipital lobe

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Where is the motor cortex located?

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The posterior of the frontal lobe

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Where is the sensory cortex located?

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The parietal lobe

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Where is the auditory cortex located?

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The temporal lobe