*Cortex-wrinkly thing made up of millions of networks of nerve cells.

*Orchestrates talents and skills- music, solving mathematical problems, face recognition, etc.

*Two halves of the brain- are asymmetrical but each has different skills and abilities.

*Left brain controls right side of body and right brain controls left side of body.

*Corpus collosum-carries impulses to and from each halve of the brain.

*Corpus collosum is sometimes cut in order to avoid seizures in some epileptics.

*Allows us to study the different properties of the two hemispheres. *Vicky saw a picture of a girl on the telephone in her left visual field. It was perceived by both eyes but then brought into the right hemisphere. Even though she understood the full picture, she was only able to say woman and was unable to fully express what the picture was. The reason for this was because the left hemisphere is responsible for language expression and since the information was in the right hemisphere she couldn’t say it. However, her right hemisphere enabled her left hand to write what she understood in the picture.

* I mostly knew all of this because Mrs. Perl taught us so well. However, I didn’t know that in the end once she wrote the word telephone she’d be able to say it and that her brain hemispheres do communicate, in a way. I thought that that was very interesting.