In Nobel Prize research beginning in the 1960s, Roger W. Sperry and colleagues studied the effects of cutting the forebrain commissures in patients as a radical treatment for intractable epilepsy.

According to researchers at the University of California at San Diego, visual areas of our brain respond more to valuable objects than other ones. In other words, our brain has stronger reactions when ...

According to the famous work of Roger Sperry and Michael Gazzaniga, “split brain” patients seem to experience a split in consciousness: the left and the right side of their brain can independently ...

http://youtu.be/ZMLzP1VCANo A split-brain patient is unable to say what he sees with his nonverbal right brain, but he can draw it. Half a century ago, patients with ...

New AI-generated images that appear to be one thing, but something else entirely when rotated, are helping scientists at ...

Jan. 25 (UPI) --New experiments show split brains don't produce split consciousness, as previously theorized. A split brain is not one sawed in two, but a brain with a severed corpus callosum, the ...

Michael Gazzaniga was still a graduate student when he helped make one of the most intriguing discoveries of modern neuroscience: that the two hemispheres of the brain not only have different ...

Severing the main connection between a person's brain hemispheres usually makes communication from one side to the other impossible, yet people who are born without this neural bridge have found a way ...

In Nobel Prize research beginning in the 1960s, Roger W. Sperry and colleagues studied the effects of cutting the forebrain commissures in patients as a radical treatment for intractable epilepsy.