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Hemispheres, visual fields, and why split brains mattered

Hemispheres, visual fields, and why split brains mattered

Diagram of Sperry's split-brain visual-field task showing left visual field projecting to the right hemisphere, right visual field projecting to the left hemisphere, a central fixation point, and a severed corpus callosum The brain has two hemispheres that normally share information through the corpus callosum. Split-brain patients had this connection surgically severed to reduce severe epilepsy, which gave Sperry a rare way to test each hemisphere separately.

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