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    Practice Exercises-Language and the Brain I

    1. Lateralization and Hemispherectomy


    Hemispherectomy is an operation in which one hemisphere or part of one hemisphere is removed from
    the brain, performed on people with severe seizures.

    (a) Imagine you perform hemispherectomy on a right-handed adult patient and remove the left
    hemisphere. Do you think the patient would experience difficulty with language? If so, what would he be
    unable to do?

    Yes I think the patient would experience dilanguage, unable to explain thoughts
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    (b) Imagine you perform hemispherectomy on a right-handed adult patient and remove the right
    hemisphere. Do you think the patient would experience difficulty with language? If so, what would he be
    unable to do?

    No there would in language of a right handed patient


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    (c) Imagine you perform hemispherectomy on a right-handed young child patient and remove the left
    hemisphere. Do you think the child would experience difficulty with language? Why or why not?

    Yes I, unable to explain thoughts


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    2. Split-brain studies
    Normally the two hemispheres are connected by the corpus callosum, but for certain kinds of
    severe epilepsy, the corpus callosum used to be surgically severed.
    A (right-handed) split-brain patient is blindfolded, and a common object is placed in one of his hands.

    (a) When an orange is placed in his right hand, will he be able to identify and name it? Why or why not?

    He will be able to identify it because it


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    (b) Will he be able to draw the orange? If so, with which hand(s)?

    He between the cognitive side


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    (c) When an apple is placed in his left hand, can he identify and name it? Why or why not?

    He will not be able to because the right hand will be over to the split brained side that codes the sight
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    (d) Will he be able to draw the apple? If so, with which hand(s)?

    He will be able to on the if placed on the left side.


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    Now we remove the blindfold from the patient and we present a picture on a screen in front of
    the patient.

    (e) When a it?

    ___yes_______________________________________________________________________________
    ___

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    (f) Will he be able to draw the orange? If so, with which hand(s)?

    _yes, left hand


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    (g) When a picture of an apple is presented to his left visual field, will he be able to name it?

    No
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    (h) Will he be able to draw the apple? If so, with which hand(s)?
    No

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