Split Brains: What Happens When You Sever the Corpus Callosum? (Intro Psych Tutorial #36)

In this video I cover research by Roger Sperry and Michael Gazzaniga on split brain patients who have had the corpus callosum severed. I explain some hemispheric specializations such as speech production and facial recognition as well as how visual information is separated into each hemisphere at the optic chiasm according to visual field.

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Severed Corpus Callosum from Scientific American Frontiers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfGwsAdS9Dc ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdzglXVZeQM