Hi, TIPSters. A student asked a great question in class yesterday I would like some help answering. In Week 1 of my Cognitive Psychology class we had talked about working memory and the articulatory rehearsal loop (which holds the sounds of words and letters while you concentrate on remembering them). In Week 2 we talked about lateralization, and I mentioned research in which people volunteered to have half their brain temporarily shut down to see what they could still do. A student asked whether someone who had their left hemisphere shut down, so they couldn’t speak, would also have their articulatory rehearsal loop shut down, so they wouldn’t be able to hold these items in working memory. Great question! My intuition says yes, without the left hemisphere the no articulatory loop couldn’t run, but I’m not aware of any data on the issue. Does anyone have knowledge about this topic they can share with me and my student? Thanks in advance.
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