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As with hearing, most of the major connections from the sense of touch goes to the opposite hemisphere. Blindfolded participants should make less naming errors for items presented in their right hand. Dichhaptic Technique

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Page 1: As with hearing, most of the major connections from the sense of touch goes to the opposite hemisphere. Blindfolded participants should make less naming

•As with hearing, most of the major connections from the sense of touch goes to the opposite hemisphere.

•Blindfolded participants should make less naming errors for items presented in their right hand.

Dichhaptic Technique

Page 2: As with hearing, most of the major connections from the sense of touch goes to the opposite hemisphere. Blindfolded participants should make less naming

Dichhaptic Technique Demonstration

Page 3: As with hearing, most of the major connections from the sense of touch goes to the opposite hemisphere. Blindfolded participants should make less naming

BrainXyzyy’s

Language centres

LR

RightHand

LeftHand

Page 4: As with hearing, most of the major connections from the sense of touch goes to the opposite hemisphere. Blindfolded participants should make less naming

Split brain patients

•The corpus callosum is cut to treat intractable epilepsy.

•This also stops information travelling between the two hemispheres.

•The effect of this was studied by Roger Sperry.

Page 5: As with hearing, most of the major connections from the sense of touch goes to the opposite hemisphere. Blindfolded participants should make less naming

BrainJW’s

Language centres

LR

RightHand

LeftHand

Because the right hemispherehandles visuospatialinformation he can draw whathe cannot name.

Visuospatial centres

Page 6: As with hearing, most of the major connections from the sense of touch goes to the opposite hemisphere. Blindfolded participants should make less naming

Split consciousness ?

•JW does not feel as if he is two people in one brain.

•Yet only part of him is conscious of the world around him at any one time.