Psychology - Corpus Callosum

corpus callosum

• large band of neural fibers connecting the two brain hemispheres and carrying messages between them

Left Brain Specialization

• LANGUAGE

• Analysis

• Mathematics

• Logic

• Verbal Memory

Right Brain Specialization

• Perceptual tasks

• Facial Recognition

• Making Inferences

• Perceiving/Expressing Emotion

• Self-Awareness

consciousness

one’s awareness of oneself and environment

dual processing

Humans process information on both conscious and unconscious tracks

blindsight

• ability to respond to a visual stimulus without conscious experience of it.

Visual Perception track

• allows us to recognize things and plan actions

Visual Action track

• guides our movements.

Parallel Processing

• unconscious processing of many aspects of a problem at the same time

• usually occurs with well-rehearsed skills

Sequential Processing

• occurs when we consciously process one aspect of a problem at a time.

• usually applied to new processes or difficult problems