jan 1, 1968 - Sperry and Gazzaniga (1968) Hemisphere deconnection and unity in conscious awareness.
BRAINS AND BEHAVIOUR, SENSE AND PERCEPTION ON
Description:
Describes the effect of commissurotomy (surgical splitting of the corpus callosum) on the visual field, on visual perception, and how this relates to localisations in the brain such as Broca's area (left side), the fusiform gyrus (right side), the somatosensory and primary motor cortexes
• Split-brain patients have a lack of cross-integration where the second hemisphere does not know what the first hemisphere has been doing.
• Split-brain patients seem to have two independent streams of consciousness, each with its own memories, perceptions and impulses ie two minds in one body
