House of Mind

"Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind" - Jeffrey Eugenides

  • 20th March
    2012
  • 20

expose-the-light:

The split brain: A tale of two halves

By David Wolman

Since the 1960s, researchers have been scrutinizing a handful of patients who underwent a radical kind of brain surgery. The cohort has been a boon to neuroscience — but soon it will be gone.

Read here

Click on the link for full length article including images, videos and extra references. Sums up split-brain research quite well and it’s open access.

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