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HM12- Left versus Right hemisphere
6/4/2015
1. What is the main function of neurons in Broca’s area? In what hemisphere is it located?
2. What is the main function of neurons in Wernicke’s area? In what hemisphere is it located?
3. You are given a piece of the left and of the right hemisphere, can you tell which piece belongs to
which hemisphere based on their neuronal structure?
4. Can chimpanzees produce as many different sounds as humans? Why?
5. Where does the left eye send information? right hemisphere? left hemisphere? both
hemispheres?
6. What is corpus callosum?
7. What kind of information can be communicated via normal corpus callosum?
8. Are fibers of corpus callosum myelinated?
9. What changes can you observe in a patient with a dissected corpus callosum?
10. Ahad Israfil lost the right side of his brain as a result of an accidental gun discharge at the age of
14 and was able to graduate a university. What would be your prediction on Ahad’s future
accomplishments, if Ahad was to lose his left hemisphere?