The word banana appears on the left screen, and the split-brain patient is told

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The word banana appears on the left screen, and the split-brain patient is told to use her left hand to select the object named on the screen. Will she be able to fetch the banana? Click or tap a choice to answer the question. Yes No The word banana appears on the left screen, and the split-brain patient is told to use her right hand to select the object named on the screen. Will she be able to fetch the banana? Click or tap a choice to answer the question. Yes No The word banana appears on the right screen, and the split-brain patient is told to use her left hand to select the object named on the screen. Will she be able to fetch the banana? Click or tap a choice to answer the question. Yes No

Explanation / Answer

In patients with split-brain syndrome the right hemisphere, which controls the left hand and foot, acts independently of the left hemisphere and the person’s ability to make rational decisions.When you read with your left eye, the information first ends up in the right hemisphere and must be transferred to the left hemisphere via the corpus callosum to be processed, but this is not the case with split-brain patients as the information is not conveyed to left side of brain.

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