Split-brain

I decorated our house for the Advent Season. No big deal? Maybe for you. For me, this means a lot because I haven’t put Christmas trimmings in our house for a long, long time. Maybe because I was so immersed in my troubles that I had forgotten how to celebrate Christmas. Or maybe, I felt so miserable that I failed to see the hope Christmas brings to our hearts... One day, my eldest son told me that he is not going to mass anymore. Stunned, I demanded for an explanation. He retorted,…

Did you know that the average adult has almost 10 pounds of skin? Furthermore, more than half of the dust in the world is just dead skin. Cells, nerves, receptors, tissue - skin doesn’t just protect our delicate insides. It plays the biggest role in how we appear, and how we feel about our appearance. The skin can even tell us when something is wrong with our insides. So what does it mean when our skin is bumpy, almost like chicken skin? Is it a breakout, an allergy, or is it a sign of…

psychological studies and research all stems from the biology of human behaviour and specifically the human brain. This is because the human brain creates and controls every single example of human behaviour imaginable and that by studying the brain, we may gain a specific insight into how behaviour is created, where and why. Some of the most pioneering and revealing research studies in the area of the human brain, specifically the study of both the right and left hemispheres was conducted by…

Ballet of Two Brains Doubt, it is the whisper through the night, the cold wind that makes christian 's skin pucker up with goosebumps full of fear and anxiety birthed by the difficult questions. The question that makes a room full of people feel like a raging sea of Sunday school answers answer you were given in 5 grade. Along with people digging trenches packing up their love and concern for you distancing themselves with those words, "I 'll be praying for you," leave you walking away feeling…

A Split Attention Effect in Multimedia Learning: Evidence for Dual Processing Systems in Working Memory, written by Robert E. Mayer and Roxana Moreno, discusses a study that tested students’ ability to successfully and effectively process information from two different stimuli at once. Mayer and Moreno found that students were able to perform better on recall tests when presented with an auditory list of instructions rather than a visual one. The purpose of the study, according to Mayer and…

Both China and the Soviet Union aided and reinforced Vietnam during the Vietnam War; however they each helped Vietnam differently and had a dissimilar advice and counsel to Vietnam. With both China and Soviet Union, Ho Chi Minh never accepted direction from either of them, as he did with the French and the Japanese, but he does in fact receive openly their help and support for the war. Ho remains independent concerning the decisions made in North Vietnam, he is not dependent on the Soviet…

received a split brain surgery, he's brain is not divided meaning that both of his brain hemispheres are working and there's not a dominant side. A split brain procedure is "a condition resulting from surgery that isolates the brain’s two hemispheres by cutting the fibers (mainly those of the corpus callosum) connecting them" (Myers, 2014p. 59). Also, just because there are specific things that a specific side of the brain can do, it does not mean that the information can not pass sides of the…

correlates with the idea of localization of functions in the brain in that each area of the brain is responsible for a certain part of our body and therefore our behavior. Michael Gazzaniga is one of the many psychologist to study split brain patients and the behavioral effects that arise due to being split brain. Michael Gazzaniga conducts a series of three experiments in order to determine the extent to which the two halves of the human brain function independently,…

Thomas Nagel, in ‘Brain bisection and the unity of consciousness’ suggests that if persons are to be explained in terms of minds or consciousness, this might seem to cast doubt on the coherence of the concept of a person. In this sense, the brain bisection data + the psychological theory of personal identity might seem to lead to skepticism about persons. 1 Structure and Function The brain has two cerebral hemispheres, which are connected via the corpus callosum, which can be thought of as an…

the lateral sides of the neck, then splits into the anterior cerebral artery and the middle cerebral artery. The anterior cerebral artery supplies blood to the medial surface of the frontal and parietal lobes as well as the corpus callosum. The middle cerebral artery supplies the lateral portions of the hemispheres and has branches that supply internal structures, like the basal ganglia and internal capsule. Before the anterior and middle cerebral arteries split, the blood branches out to supply…