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.

For decades the world believed that creativity lived in the right brain and logic in the left But modern neuroscience tells a ...

Severance, which imagines a world where a person’s work and personal lives are surgically separated, will soon return to Apple TV+ for a second season. While the concept of this gripping piece of ...

What would happen if your brain was split in two? In this recent Invisibilia podcast and show, host Hanna Rosin meets a woman named Karen with "alien hand syndrome." After surgery to treat her ...

The patient sits in front a partitioned screen so that only the left eye can see the word "car" and only the right eye can see the word "key." When asked to say what he can see, the patient says, "car ...

Jan. 25 (UPI) --New experiments show split brains don't produce split consciousness, as previously theorized. A split brain is not one sawed in two, but a brain with a severed corpus callosum, the ...

Here’s a notion that might make some science feathers ruffle: decades of neurosurgical data imply your mind may not be entirely contained in your brain. For anyone indoctrinated with the “you are your ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The human brain is far slower than a Major League fastball or a blistering tennis serve -- but it has figured out a workaround. New research by University of California at Berkeley ...

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.