A new study reveals the human brain’s remarkable ability to maintain communication between its two hemispheres even when 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.

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 ...

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 ...

For unknown reasons, the human brain distinctly separates the handling of images of living things from images of non-living things, processing each image type in a different area of the brain. For ...

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.