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Lateralisation - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Surgeons cut the bundle of nerve fibres that forms the corpus callosum - aim was to prevent the violent electrical activity that accompanies epileptic seizures crossing from one hemisphere to the other.
      - Meant psychologists could study the hemispheres separately.
- - - - If pictures = right visual field, all participants could say or write what it was without problem
      - If pictures = left visual field, participants couldn’t say or write what they’d seen
        
        BUT they could select a corresponding object with their left hand, which represented what had been shown to their left eye (right hemisphere) even though they didn’t know why they had selected this object