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Michael S. Gazzaniga, Cerebral specialization and interhemispheric communication: Does the corpus callosum enable the human condition?, Brain, Volume 123, Issue 7, July 2000, Pages 1293–1326, https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/123.7.1293 The surgical disconnection of the cerebral hemispheres creates an extraordinary opportunity to study basic neurological mechanisms: the organization of the sensory and motors systems, the cortical representation of the perceptual and cognitive processes, the lateralization of function, and, perhaps most importantly, how the divided brain yields clues to the nature of conscious experience. Studies of split-brain patients over the last 40 years have resulted in numerous insights into the processes of perception, attention, memory, language and reasoning abilities. When the constellation of findings is considered as a whole, one sees the cortical arena as a patchwork of specialized processes. When this is considered in the light of new studies on the laterali

Michael S. Gazzaniga, Cerebral specialization and interhemispheric communication: Does the corpus callosum enable the human condition?, Brain, Volume 123, Issue 7, July 2000, Pages 1293–1326, https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/123.7.1293 The surgical disconnection of the cerebral hemispheres creates an extraordinary opportunity to study basic neurological mechanisms: the organization of the sensory and motors systems, the cortical representation of the perceptual and cognitive processes, the lateralization of function, and, perhaps most importantly, how the divided brain yields clues to the nature