as with hearing, most of the major connections from the sense of touch goes to the opposite...
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•As with hearing, most of the major connections from the sense of touch goes to the opposite hemisphere.
•Blindfolded participants should make less naming errors for items presented in their right hand.
Dichhaptic Technique
Dichhaptic Technique Demonstration
BrainXyzyy’s
Language centres
LR
RightHand
LeftHand
Split brain patients
•The corpus callosum is cut to treat intractable epilepsy.
•This also stops information travelling between the two hemispheres.
•The effect of this was studied by Roger Sperry.
BrainJW’s
Language centres
LR
RightHand
LeftHand
Because the right hemispherehandles visuospatialinformation he can draw whathe cannot name.
Visuospatial centres
Split consciousness ?
•JW does not feel as if he is two people in one brain.
•Yet only part of him is conscious of the world around him at any one time.