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This 8 page paper answers 6 questions set by the student. 1; What is brain lateralisation and by what methods has it been investigated?; 2, What is handedness and does it have anything to do with lateralisation?; 3, Discuss some of the factors that a researcher needs to take into account in designing a good experiment?; 4, Explain semantic networks and connectionist networks; 5, Are repressed memories real and 6, what are the implications of false memories. The bibliography cites 12 sources.
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responsible for different functions. This was first noted by Paul Broca who discovered that it was the brains left hemisphere that had the language function (Reber, 1995). Since that time
a numerous studies have examined the way that functions are associated with specific hemispheres of the brain. Reber defines brain lateralisation as "The process by which different functions and processes
become associated with one or the other side of the brain" (Reber, 1995; 409). The majority of research has been based on different forms of observation. For example, the
hemispheres of the brain are not symmetrical, Galabura (et al, 1978) looks at these and related these asymmetries to the way in which different functions are controlled, such as the
handedness is determined. Rogers (2001) has undertaken a range of tests to establish which parts of the brain are used in specific circumstances, and have determined, though the use
of animal and human tests that the left side of the brain is used for control decisions, and the right is that hemisphere that is used for immediate decisions. This
has been undertaken by tracking the activity in the brain. For the left side to operate there has to be an ability to suppress the right side which gives an
immediate response. One experiment involved the use of chicks and the way that social pecks were given and responded to. The brains are monitored and the area of activity noted.
This has been repeated in other animals, and results appear to be similar for all vertebrates (Rogers, 2001). In humans a useful test has been the ability to scan
the brain and the use of split brain patients with card or recognition tests, found similar results have been found with the left hand side of the brain looking at
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