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.

According to researchers at the University of California at San Diego, visual areas of our brain respond more to valuable objects than other ones. In other words, our brain has stronger reactions when ...

Researchers measured acetylcholine production in participants' brains at the beginning and end of the 10-week trial.

A paralyzed man in his 40s is now able to feel and use objects through the hands of another person, after receiving a brain ...

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 ...

When a baseball player hits a home run off a 100-mph fastball, how can the slugger's brain track such a fast-moving object? Scientists may now have the answer. In a new study, they discovered how the ...

According to the famous work of Roger Sperry and Michael Gazzaniga, “split brain” patients seem to experience a split in consciousness: the left and the right side of their brain can independently ...

Discover how split-brain patients provide insight into the left and right brain's distinct functions in neuroscience research. In one of Gazzaniga's favourite examples, he flashed the word 'smile' to ...

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 ...

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.