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Epilepsy In Psychology

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Psychology, the study dealing with mental phenomena and processes. Psychologists studies and learns about emotions, intelligence, consciousness, mainly the human mind. The human brain is made up of two hemispheres, each, having to play its own tremendous role in the human body. Researchers founded that for most people, the left hemisphere of your brain mostly controls the ability to speak, and that the right hemisphere is involved in spatial relationships, such as reasoning. Many people questioned themselves about the brain and how it functions; they believed that the brain may be a separate mental system that has its own roles; this led to psychologists Roger W. Sperry, and Michael Gazzaniga, to examine and investigate this matter in question. …show more content…

They do this by surgically disconnecting the corpus callosum. The corpus callosum is made up of two hundred million nerve fibers; and when this structure is cut, the connection of the two hemispheres will be agitated, leaving the two halves to function on its own. When this became known to the people, many patients allowed Sperry and Gazzaniga to conduct test and research on them to determine if the patients has lost any of their skills while undergoing the treatment. Sperry and Gazzaniga wanted to examine the limit to which the two halves of the human brain can function separately, and if they had any alone unique capabilities. By observing and identifying the corpus callosum, it led them to develop three new tests; these tests were thought of to examine mental and perceptual potential of the …show more content…

One of the tests was designed to examine visual abilities; the researchers did this by devising a technique that shows a picture of an object, word, or part of a word, which will be transferred to one of the halves of the brain, not both.
Another, testing situation was designed for tactile incite; where patients will be able to feel, but won’t be able to see an object, a word, nor a cut out

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