Split Brains and Hemisphere Specialization

  One way of seeing differences between the two hemispheres comes from cases of patients with “split-brains”. These patients have had their corpus callosum severed in order to prevent the spread of epileptic seizures. While this process effectively stops the … Read More

Split-Brain Demonstrations

Here’s a clip from Scientific American Frontiers featuring Michael Gazzaniga discussing and demonstrating experiments with split-brain patient Joe.