Exam 16: Lateralization, Language, and the Split Brain

The area of the frontal operculum that is visible on the surface tends to be __________ on the right; however, the entire volume of the frontal operculum, including that buried in the sulci, tends to be __________ on the right.

Most people palpate with their

-After the picture of a familiar object is flashed in the right visual field of a human split-brain patient, the patient can

Evidence that the perception of music is lateralized comes from demonstrations that

There are two major categories of acquired dyslexia:

A pathological difficulty in reading is termed

According to the text, the main problem with the analytic-synthetic theory of cerebral asymmetry is its

Both the planum temporale and Heschl's gyrus are in

The most powerful fMRI tests suggest that the language areas of the cortex are

The study of communication in nonhuman primates suggests that the major impediment to their use of vocal language is their inability to

According to the Wernicke-Geschwind model, signals are carried from Wernicke's area to Broca's area via the left

-According to the Wernicke-Geschwind model, the neural output of the left frontal operculum goes to

Dyslexics in whom the phonetic procedure is disrupted while the lexical procedure remains normal are said to have __________ dyslexia.

During a test in which split-brain patients were asked to verbally specify which of two colors, red or green, had been presented in the left visual field, an interesting phenomenon was discovered.This phenomenon is

Broca's area is adjacent to the

Although several neuroanatomical asymmetries have been reported in the areas of the human neocortex that are thought to play an important role in language (e.g., planum temporale), there is no evidence that these anatomical asymmetries

Many of the early studies of the split brain were conducted in the laboratory of

According to the Wernicke-Geschwind model, __________ area is the center of speech production.

Sodium amytal tests indicate that

The motor theory of the lateralization of cerebral function is that