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Nov 9, 2023: week 8 lecture notes - Coggle Diagram

- - - - hearing environmental sounds better through the right ear
    - - when the key is held in the right, patient can easily name it, blindfolded
        
        because the right hand is connected to left hemisphere
        
        when the key is placed in the left hand, the patient cannot name the object
      - when written words, letters and numbers are presented to the left hemisphere by itself, patients were able to describe them orally
        
        but information perceived by the right hemisphere alone, cannot be verbalized either orally or in writing
        
        right hemisphere is "mute"
  - - - regardless of handedness it is common for language to be represented in the left side of the brain (broca's area)
- - - - therefore, neurosurgeons need to be careful when removing brain tumors