6. What is the \"TMS temporary-lesion approach?\" What advantages does this rese

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6. What is the "TMS temporary-lesion approach?" What advantages does this research tool offer? 7. In Sperry's study of split-brain patients, a patient could report words projected to the left-hemisphere, but not the right hemisphere. Describe what a "split-brain" is, and the resulting deficit. 8. Explain the "right-ear" advantage, and why it exists. 9. Describe prosopagnosia. 10. How do the Wada test and split-brain studies identify which areas of the brain are involved in prosopagnosia? 11. Explain how each of the following factors can influence recovery of function: type of rehabilitation, age, lesion momentum, trauma versus stroke damage. 12. Describe "constraint-induced movement therapy."

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6. The transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a brain stimulation technique that utilises electromagnetic waves in order to temporarily disrupt information processing in a specific brain region. In doing so, it generates a temporary and reversible lesion. TMS has several advantages over other lesion techniques because it is non-invasive and it’s effects are short-lived. It therefore eliminates the need to find patients suffering from brain dysfunction or damage and allows research to be conducted on normal patients.

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