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SPLIT BRAIN RESEARCH - Coggle Diagram
SPLIT BRAIN RESEARCH
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weakness :cry:
the extent to which split brains were indicative of normal functioning prior to surgery is an issue, especially as the split brain surgery was to treat a problem
it is possible that there were other effects on the brain of the split brain surgery or that hemispheres were not entirely disconnected from one another
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many studies involved as few as 3 ppts which makes it difficult to generalise the findings to others
this therefore limits the extent to which the finding can be generalised to normal brains and suggest that we should be cautious when interpreting the findings of split brain research
split brain research
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a series of studies which began in the 1960s involving people with epilepsy who had experienced a surgical separation of the hemispheres of their brain to reduce the severity of their epilepsy.
corpus callosum = a broad bundle of 55 million connecting nerve fibres that joins the two hemispheres of the brain allowing information received by one hemisphere to be sent to the other
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