Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Sperry (1968) - Coggle Diagram
Sperry (1968)
-
-
-
Sample
Sample used
11 epileptic patients who had undergone a commissurotomy as a treatment. They were obtained from a surgery within America.
-
-
-
Background
In the 1940’s a treatment was developed for people with epilepsy called ‘split brain surgery’ that included the corpus callosum being cut so that the abnormal electrical impulses could not spread throughout the brain.
Sperry though that patients who had undergone split brain surgery were perfect participants for research into what each hemisphere of the brain actually does
-
-
-
-
-
-
Ethnocentrism
The sample was obtained from a hospital in America but the roles of each brain hemisphere should be universal meaning it doesn’t matter and the findings can be applicable to everyone