May Has Undergone a Split-Brain Procedure

question 71

Multiple Choice

May has undergone a split-brain procedure.When a picture of a chair is processed by May's right hemisphere and she is asked about what she sees,May will most likely

• A) say that she sees "a chair."
• B) not be able to verbally describe what she sees.
• C) be able to manually draw what she sees with her right hand.
• D) not be able to manually draw what she sees with her left hand.

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Definitions:

Frontal Lobe Damage

Injury to the front part of the brain, which can affect mood, behavior, judgment, and motor function.

Medial Temporal Lobe

A region of the brain critically involved in the formation of new memories and associated with various aspects of recognition memory and spatial navigation.

Parietal Lobe

One of the four major lobes of the cerebral cortex in the brain, responsible for processing sensory information regarding the location of parts of the body, as well as interpreting visual information and processing language and mathematics.

Hippocampus

An essential part of the limbic system involved in forming new memories and connected to emotions and spatial orientation.