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Tag Archives: Split-brain
Debate: Do split-brain patients have two minds?
I went to the NYU Consciousness site this morning hoping to see if the recent debate on the relationship of prefrontal activity to consciousness had been posted yet. It hasn’t, and based on what I can see, it might be … Continue reading
Split brains and functioning consciousness
I’ve written before about split-brain patients, those who, due to severe epilepsy, had the connections between the two hemispheres of their brain severed, yet were subsequently able to lead normal lives without themselves even noticing any cognitive change, which has … Continue reading
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Tagged Brain, brain hemispheres, Cerebral hemisphere, Consciousness, Corpus callosum, Mind, Science, Split-brain, split-brain patients
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