YABUT, ALTHEA URSULA R.

BSP 1-BP11

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What will happen if our two
halves stop talking to each other?

 The split brain: A tale of two halves

The term "split brain" refers to patients in whom
the corpus callosum has been cut for the
alleviation of medically intractable epilepsy.

 What does a split brain

patients experience?

Since information cannot be directly shared between the two

hemispheres, split-brain patients display unusual behaviours,
particularly concerning speech and object recognition.
One of the most well-known split-brain findings is that the patient claims
verbally not to have seen the stimulus in the left visual field, yet indicates
the identity of it with their left hand. This suggests that the left hemisphere
(controlling verbal output) is blind to the left visual field, while the right
hemisphere (controlling the left hand) does perceive it.

 Does a split-brain harbor a split

consciousness or is consciousness
unified?

The current consensus is that the body of evidence is insufficient

to answer this question, and different suggestions are made with
respect to how future studies might address this paucity
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