1. Hemisphere refers to the side of the brain, left or right, divided by a little space.
2. The major difference between the left hemisphere of the brain and the right one is that the left specializes in learning and hard tasks and the right specializes in the less hard parts of life like feelings and emotions.
3. The corpus collosum is a wide flat bundle of neural fibers used to connect the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
4. Pierre Paul Broca studied 2 brains of dead people who had speech impairment and could only pronounce a few words. He then found a lesion in the frontal lobe while performing an autopsy on these patients.5. Roger Sperry helped many epileptic people in the 1960s. He cut the corpus collosum so there would not be any type of energy transfers and the patient would not be able to have an attack.
6. After Paul Broca, Karl Wernicke heard about his findings he became interested in this and found out that speech was also connected with the temporal lobe.
7. The occipital lobe is the most responsible lobe for vision.
8. The temporal lobe is responsible for hearing and language.
9. The frontal lobe is responsible for math calculations.
10. The frontal lobe is responsible for judgment, reasoning and impulse.
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