What have we learned about the two hemispheres of the brain from split-brain patients?
What will be an ideal response?
* The two hemispheres cannot communicate without the corpus callosum (visual fields).
* The left hemisphere is involved in speech and language production and operates in a logical, sequential, and analytical manner.
* The right hemisphere is involved in spatial abilities, adding emotional content to speech, facial recognition, and in the selection of objects. The right hemisphere operates in a holistic or all-encompassing manner.
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A) 27 B) 47 C) 67 D) 87
Transactive memory is ____
a. a process that takes place in groups b. a type of memory associated with the automatic mind c. the same thing as a "false memory" d. a memory for a specific behavior or event that occurred in the past