Day 109 of 365
April 19
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Neuroscience The Split-Brain Phenomenon
When the corpus callosum connecting brain hemispheres is severed (treating epilepsy), patients develop split consciousness. Each hemisphere can't communicate, creating bizarre effects. Show the left eye an object, the person can't name it (language is left-hemisphere) but the left hand can select it. This reveals consciousness emerges from connected parts.
💡 Did you know?
Split-brain patients can simultaneously hold contradictory beliefs in each hemisphere!
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