Is Split Brain Theory Really a Myth? What New Research Says
If you were to split a brain in half – would your consciousness also be divided? What about the notion that some people are more right-brained and others more left-brained?
In the original findings of split-brain theory, researchers believe that patients who underwent surgery to sever the corpus callosum, the nerve tract connecting the two hemispheres of the brain, would also experience a split within their consciousness. They also hypothesized that the right and left hemispheres of the brain perform very different functions – or brain laterality. They believed that when the two sides of the brain weren’t able to communicate with each other, they responded differently to stimuli, indicating that the hemispheres have different functions. Are these claims true, just a myth, or somewhere in-between?