Localisation of function & hemispheric lateralisation

Phineas Gage had damage to which part of his brain?

• Brocas Area

• Temporal lobe

• Frontal lobe

• Occipital lobe

What impact did the brain damage have on Phineas Gage?

• Couldn’t produce speech

• Couldn’t comprehend language

• Personality changed becoming more aggressive

• Memory issues

What impact did the brain damage have on Broca’s patient?

• Couldn’t produce speech

• Couldn’t comprehend language

• Personality changed becoming more aggressive

• Memory issues

What impact did the brain damage have on Wernicke’s patient?

• Couldn’t produce speech

• Couldn’t comprehend language

• Personality changed becoming more aggressive

• Memory issues

Broca’s patient had damage to which part of his brain?

• Brocas Area on frontal lobe

• Temporal lobe

• Frontal lobe

• Occipital lobe

Wernicke’s patient had damage to which part of his brain?

• Brocas Area on frontal lobe

• Wernickes area on Temporal lobe

• Frontal lobe

• Occipital lobe

What part of the participants in Sperry’s study was severed?

• Frontal lobe

• Temporal lobe

• Corpus Callosum

• Motor cortex

In the Sperry study what happened when an image was presented to the right visual field?

• They could name it

• They couldn’t name it

• They could draw it with their left hand

• They claimed they didn’t see it

In the Sperry study what were 2 of the results when an image was presented to the left visual field?

• They could name it

• They couldn’t name it

• They could draw it with their left hand

What is hemispheric lateralisation?

• The left hemisphere controls the right side of the body and vice versa

• Areas of the brain are responsible for different behaviours and processes

• All parts of the brain are involved in processing thought and action

• Each side of the brain dominates for particular functions e.g left for language