Severed Corpus Callosum Analysis

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The video Severed Corpus Callosum by the Scientific American Frontiers describes the case of a split-brain patient Joe. The recording starts on the campus of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire where Dr. Mike Gazzaniga, one of the leading scientists of this place has been working with Joe, a man with two brains for over a decade. Doctors have to perform brain surgery to correct his epileptic problem and to stop the daily seizures that were affecting his life. The procedure severed the connection between the two halves of his brain cutting the corpus callosum to prevent the spread of the electric storms that causes seizures. Yet, it also stopped the communication between the left and right halves of his brain.
Joe is giving a test and his two

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