Chapter Questions
The left hemisphere of the brain is connected to the right eye in guinea pigs. In humans, the left hemisphere is connected to the left half of each retina. Explain the reason for this species difference.
In humans, the left half of the retina receives visual information from the ________ sends its axons to the __________ hemisphere of the brain.
What can a split-brain person do that other people cannot do?
Can a split-brain person name an object after feeling it with the right hand? With the left hand? Explain.
Which hemisphere is dominant for the following in most people: speech, emotional inflection of speech, interpreting other people's emotional expressions, spatial relationships?
What behavioral evidence indicates that the corpus callosum is immature in 3year-olds?
What are three likely explanations for why bonobos mademore language progress than common chimpanzees?
What evidence argues against the hypothesis that language evolution depended simply on the overall evolution of brain and intelligence?
Describe tasks that people with Williams syndrome do poorly and those that they do well.
What is the strongest evidence in favor of a sensitive period for language learning?
What kind of word are Broca's patients least likely to use?
What kind of word do Broca's patients have the most trouble understanding?
Describe the speech production of people with Wernicke's aphasia.
Describe the speech comprehension of people with Wernicke's aphasia.
In what way do musical compositions vary depending on the language spoken by the composer?
Why is dyslexia identified more frequently in children speaking English than in those speaking many other languages?
Why do nearly all scientists and philosophers reject the idea of dualism?
What is meant by the "hard problem"?
In the experiment by Dehaene et al., how were theconscious and unconscious stimuli similar? How werethey different?
In this experiment, how did the brain's responses differ to the conscious and unconscious stimuli?
How could someone use fMRI to determine which of two patterns in binocular rivalry is conscious at a given moment?
If someone is aware of the stimulus on the right in a case of binocular rivaliry, what evidence indicates that the brain is also processing the stimulus on the left?
In what way does the phi phenomenon imply that a newstimulus sometimes changes consciousness of what went before it?
As people lost consciousness under anesthesia andlater regained it, what changed most strikingly in the brain?
What brain response was related to people's ability toresist distraction from an irrelevant red square amongthe green squares and circle?
What is the evidence that spatial neglect is a problem in attention, not just sensation?
What are several procedures that increase attention to the left side in a person with spatial neglect?
Why is it misleading to call oxytocin the "love hormone"?
If a rat has an opportunity to help another rat in distress, under what circumstances will it or will it not help?