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split-brain

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split-brain
adj.
Of, relating to, or subjected to surgical separation of the hemispheres of the brain by severing the corpus callosum.
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From the studies of the split-brain, the left brain is more dominant for linguistic abilities, calculations, and math and logic abilities, where the right brain is more dominant for spatial ability (Oono 1996), and it was also reported that the language center of most right-handed people is on the left side of the brain (Kubota 1982; Sakano, 1982).
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Split-brain experiments involve patients who have had their corpus callosum (a thick, broad band of the brain comprised of millions of nerve fibers) severed.
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That split-brain patient recognized himself in images that blended his features with those of one of the researchers only when the images appeared in his right visual field and were thus handled by his left brain.
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