• Airfried@piefed.social
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    19 hours ago

    You can, for example, give one an instruction to do something.

    How would you do that? Since both eyes are connected to both hemispheres isn’t it kind of hard to do that? Or are both ears separated and you can give commands through that without the other hemisphere knowing? I’ve heard about these studies too but I’m not sure about how the setup works because I’ve heard they used text on a screen for that but OP said the eyes do snitch to the other half after all. I find it a little confusing.

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      8 hours ago

      By building a setup that allows the researchers to flash text on the right/left visual field. On a normal brain this information does indeed travel between the hemispheres but on a split brain it doesn’t.