| Term | Definition |
|---|
| environmental agnosia | loss of familiarity with environment; usually an occipito-temporal RH lesion |
| facial agnosia | loss of ability to recognize familiar faces; posterior RH lesions |
| left unilateral neglect | dressing disturbances; left visual field neglect |
| right hemisphere | SYNTHESIS: gestald specialist, poor at processing analytic details; ignores unimportant details; concerned with general configuration; inability to process symbols; specializes in spatial processing |
| left hemisphere | ANALYSIS: lacks configurational understanding; does not see Gestalkt whole; expert in symbol translation; keys on detailed analysis of features of stimuli |
| chimeric stimuli | when stimulus is presented in the midline of the visual field to a split brain subject, each hemisphere perceives a complete stimulus figure rather than perceiving half the stimulus |
| Levy | test of "spatial deficits" in left handers |
| Wada test | sotium amytal testing shows that 30% of left handers had language in right hemisphere |
| Zaidel | reading in the right hemisphere |
| sound to picture | hear a word and point (with left hand) to the correct picture; RH is fine |
| sound to spelling | hear a word and point to graphemes from a choice of 4 spelled words; RH is fine |
| spelling to picture | hear letters, point to picture; RH is fine |
| picture to sound | see and object, point to a picture that shows an object that rhymes; RH has great difficulty with this task |
| spelling to sound | see letters, point to a rhyming object; RH cannot perform this task |
| nonsense sound to spelling | hear nonsense word and point to letter string that spells that word; RH cannot perform this task either |
Combine with other sets
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