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Psychology Laura Henderson Essay - Physiological Psychology - Sperry A. Sperry found that in the participants with hemisphere deconnection each hemisphere appears to have its own memory. Using his technique, Sperry was able to send information e.g. an image, to only one hemisphere. Under the laboratory conditions there was no outside way of the information to get to both hemispheres, so only the one side had the memory of being shown the image. He also found that there is lateralisation of function within the brain, especially so when it comes to language. In most people language is controlled in the left hemisphere, so when pictures were shown in the right visual field the participant could answer verbally, but if an image was shown in the left visual field, the participant could only answer non-verbally. They also found that the split-brain participants performed better in tasks where parallel responses were needed from each hand, this...

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