Chapter 14

In humans, light from the right visual field shines on the __________ half of each retina, which sends its axons to the ___________ hemisphere of the brain.

After a split-brain person sees something in the left visual field, how can he or she describe or identify the object?

Which hemisphere is dominant for each of the following in most people: speech, emotional inflection of speech, interpreting other people's emotional expressions, spatial relationships, perceiving overall patterns?

A child born without a corpus callosum can name something felt with the left hand, but an adult who suffered damage to the corpus callosum cannot. What are two likely explanations?

What evidence argues against the hypothesis that language evolution depended simply on the overall evolution of brain and intelligence?

What is the strongest evidence in favor of a sensitive period for language learning?

Describe the speech production of people with Broca's aphasia and those with Wernicke's aphasia.

Describe the speech comprehension of people with Broca's aphasia and those with Wernicke's aphasia.

In what way do musical compositions vary depending on the language spoken by the composer?

What usually gives the most problems to a person with dyslexia- vision, hearing, or connecting vision to hearing?

What is the evidence that spatial neglect is a problem in attention, not just sensation?