Year: 1994
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: The extent to which observed behavior in the complete commissurotomy\npatients is supported by only one hemisphere would depend on individual\ndifferences interacting with a variety of factors such as genetics,\nintelligence, and so on. The lesson imparted here is that there is\nsufficient functional redundancy in the neocortex so that the capacity\nto maintain a wide range of abilities is within the control of one\nhemisphere. And, yet, as seen in what is missing in the patients'\nbehavior, one hemisphere is not quite enough. Nature seems to have\nintended that the two hemispheres complement each other, that the full\nrange of human behavior be best accomplished through interaction\nbetween the left and right hemispheres.
Author: Dahlia W. Zaidel
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: National Institutes of Health
OpenAlex ID: W183092138