The most significant finding from the "split brain" patients studied by Roger Sperry and his collaborators was that

A. to evaluate the functional capacity of each hemisphere in split-brain patients, it is essential to provide information to one side of the brain only.
B. in most human brains, the left hemisphere is specialized for processing verbal and symbolic material; the right hemisphere is specialized for visuospatial and emotional processing.
C. the severing of the corpus callosum is a necessary and effective remedy for halting grand mal seizures in epilepsy.
D. the right and left hemispheres are mirror images of each other and equally dominant in producing and understanding language in humans.


B. in most human brains, the left hemisphere is specialized for processing verbal and symbolic material; the right hemisphere is specialized for visuospatial and emotional processing.

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