Sperry APFC

Label the lobes of the brain e.g '_____ Lobe'

a

b

c

d

Temporal Lobe

Parietal Lobe

Occipital Lobe

Frontal Lobe

Describes the cortex responsible for processing sensory information

Which of the following does not describe a behaviour associated with Wernicke's Aphasia

• Difficulty in producing any speech
• Fluent but nonsensical speech
• Inability to understand spoken language
• Ability to produce coherent and meaningful speech

Match the following pieces of research to the correct AO3 point

• Research disputes localisation theory

• Lashley (1950)

• Case Study support

• Peterson et al (1998)

• Neurosurgery evidence support

• Phineas Gage

• Brain Scan Evidence

• Dougherty et al. (2002)

The two hemispheres are connected by the...

• corpus callosum
• cerebellum
• hippocampus
• thalamus

How does severing the corpus callosum help people with epilepsy?

• It increases the frequency of seizures.
• It enhances communication between brain hemispheres.
• It helps reduce the spread of seizures between brain hemispheres.
• It eliminates all types of seizures completely.

What were the three tasks Sperry used?

• Describe what you see

• Spatial Navigation Task

• Drawing task

• Tactile Task

When an image is presented to the Left Visual Field, participants could not verbally describe the image...

• True

• False

All participants were right handed, this meant their drawings with their left hand was always bad

• True

• False

What did Sperry conclude in this piece of research?

• The two hemispheres of the brain have specialized functions.
• The brain functions as a single unit without specialization.
• Sperry found that the left hemisphere controls emotions exclusively.
• Both hemispheres are identical in their functions.