(* to be used in addition to material from lectures, readings and discussion groups)

(Intractable) epilepsy, types of seizures, characteristics of seizures

corpus callosum, parts of; interhemispheric commissures, anterior, hippocampal, collicular

commissurotomy

functions of the corpus callosum

Akelaitis results versus Sperry, Gazzaniga & Bogen results

disconnection symptoms, alien hand sign

Experiment by Myers & Sperry: method, implications

Holtzman & Gazzaniga study illustrating superior performance in split brain patients

Reuter-Lorenz & Miller study illustrating basic asymmetries in split-brain patients

Patient PS, consciousness, left-brain interpreter, cross-cueing

Pinker’s 3 categories of consciousness

hemispheric dominance/specialization

global/local processing, hierarchically organized figures

dichotomies describing hemispheric differences

direct access model versus indirect relay model versus activation orienting

tachistoscopic method/dichotic listening

functional asymmetries in the normal brain

corpus callosum and resource allocation, Banich task

sodium amytal procedure ("Wada test") and relevance

differences between left and right handers

Case V.J. (the left-handed split-brain patient) patterns of deficits and dissociations

components of sound-based speech (phoneme, morpheme, syntax, lexicon, semantics, prosody, articulation, discourse)

aphasia, dysarthria,

Right hemisphere contributions to language

Wernicke-Geschwind model (Brodmann's Areas 44 and 22, arcuate fasciculus, angular gyrus (39)) and its account of language behaviors

arguments against hypothesis that Broca's aphasia is primarily motoric rather

than linguistic deficit

characteristics of disordered language (fluency vs dysfluency, anomia, comprehension disorders, repetition disorders, agrammatism, word salad, semantic and phonemic & paraphasias, neologisms, alexia, agraphia)

kinds of aphasia (Broca's, Wernicke's, Conduction, Transcortical Motor aphasia, Transcortical sensory aphasia, Global aphasia) know hypothesized lesion sites and symptoms