Hemispheric lateralisation
The idea that the two halves (hemispheres) of the brain are functionally different and that certain mental processes and behaviours are mainly controlled by one hemisphere rather than the other, as in the example of language (which is localised as well as lateralised).
Split-brain research
A series of studies which began in the 1960s (and are still ongoing) involving people with epilepsy who had experienced a surgical separation of the hemispheres of their brain to reduce the severity of their epilepsy. This enabled researchers to test lateral functions of the brain in isolation.
Localisation and lateralisation
Left and right hemispheres
Evaluation
Split-brain research
Sperry’s research
Evaluation
Evaluation of hemispheric lateralisation SME
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1.1 Origins of Psychology13
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1.2.1 The behaviourist approach11
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1.2.2 Social Learning Theory13
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1.3 The Cognitive Approach12
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1.4 The Biological Approach15
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2.1 The Nervous & Endocrine System17
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2.2 Neurons and Synaptic Transmission19
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2.3 Localisation of Function in The Brain14
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2.4 Hemispheric Lateralisation and Split Brain Research9
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2.5 Plasticity and Functional Recovery of The Brain After Trauma15
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2.6 Ways of Studying the Brain14
