Split-Brain Patients

M Roser; M Gazzaniga

doi:10.1016/B978-008045046-9.00431-9

Split-Brain Patients

M Roser, M Gazzaniga

School of Psychology

University of California at Santa Barbara

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Abstract

Split-brain patients, in whom the cortical commissures, principally the corpus callosum, have been cut, provide a unique window into functional specialization of each cerebral hemisphere. Early testing of these patients, using various methods for lateralizing stimulus input and responses, confirmed hemispheric specializations suspected from previous studies of patients with lateralized brain damage. The following decades produced many examples of functional differences between the two hemispheres in the attentional, perceptual, and cognitive domains. Comparisons of partial- and complete-callosotomy patients have yielded information about functionally specific pathways through the corpus callosum. Division of the brain has also provided insight into the nature of consciousness in each hemisphere.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Neuroscience
Subtitle of host publication	Volumes 1-11
Editors	LR Squire
Publisher	Elsevier
Pages	V10-351-V10-356
Volume	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9780080450469
ISBN (Print)	9780080446172
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-008045046-9.00431-9
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2009

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Medicine
General Neuroscience

Keywords

Callosotomy
Commissure
Commissurotomy
Corpus callosum
Disconnection syndrome
Hemisphere
Interhemispheric
Split brain
White matter

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