AP Psych unit 1 pt 13 (Damage Response and Brain Hemispheres)

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Neuroplasticity

The brains ability to change, build, and recognize after damage or experience

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Neurogenesis

The process of the brain trying to med itself by recognizing existing tissue, it sometimes must produce new neurons

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Lateralization

The specialization of brain functions in one hemisphere over the other

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Hemisphere

One of the two halves of the cerebrum, the largest part of the brain

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Aphasia

A language disorder that affects a person’s ability to communicatedue to damage to the parts of the brain that control language

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Split-brain-study

Severing the link between thetwo brain Hemispheres

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Corpus callosum

Large band of neural fibers connectingthe two hemispheres of the brainthat carries messages between them