In Nobel Prize research beginning in the 1960s, Roger W. Sperry and colleagues studied the effects of cutting the forebrain commissures in patients as a radical treatment for intractable epilepsy.

Consciousness has long resisted neat explanations, but a growing body of research suggests the problem may lie in how we picture the brain’s information processing. Instead of behaving like a tidy ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers report that only a small ...

But researchers were concerned about whether this procedure might have other, less desirable effects. What happens when the right and left sides of the cerebral cortex—responsible for an enormous ...

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