“There was another major phase of split-brain research where we studied the patients as a way of getting at the other questions very much alive in neuroscience, everything from questions about visual midline overlap to spatial attention and resource allocations. At this point the split-brain patients provided a way of examining cortical-subcortical relationships, and other matters.”

—  Michael S. Gazzaniga

[Interview with Michael Gazzaniga, 2011, 12 April, Annals of the New York Academy of Science]

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