PSYC 311 Chapter -: The-Split-Brain-Revisited-Gazzaniga
Document Summary
Image shown to right visual field and patient was able to say what it was. Image shown to left visual field and patient couldn"t talk about what was seen but was able to explain what it saw nonverbally (point to object that they saw). This is culturally adapted -> visual artists consider themselves right-brained whereas writers left-brained: many bridges of neurons (commissure) that connect the two hemispheres. Corpus callosum is the most massive commissure and usually the only one cut in surgery (what about others?) Attentional resources are limited: luck, hillyard and mangun discovered that the split-brain was better at visual-searching tasks than intact brain. Lh is good at detecting an odd exception from a set of similar items. Friday, october 14, 2016: the studies show some communication btw the 2 halves but other apparent inter-hemispheric connections are illusory, gazzaniga and kingstone were fooled in a study where they flashed word bow to one hemisphere and.
