Across
- 2. Major damage to his frontal lobes dramatically altered his personality but his mental abilities and memories were intact
- 5. by either electrically stimulating or severing a cat's reticular formation, they found that the reticular formation is involved in arousal
- 6. discovered that damage to the L temporal lobe would result in speech of only meaningless words and an understanding impediment
- 7. reported that damage to L frontal lobe would still allow a person to sing familiar songs but there would be a struggle to speak words
Down
- 1. made first speculations that by severing the axon fibers connecting the two hemispheres, epileptic seizures would stop
- 2. known for split brain surgery and his studies of split brain in which he quizzes each hemisphere separately
- 3. Led the discovery of how the brain produces its own naturally occurring opiates by attaching a radioactive tracer to morphine
- 4. cognitive neuroscientists that led the development of dual processing
- 7. Uncovered the amygdala's influence on aggression and fear by lesioning or stimulating a part of a monkey's brain containing the amygdala
- 8. discovered other "pleasure centers" like the hypothalamus through series of experiments such as having rats press pedals to trigger their own stimulation