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Elizabeth Schechter

3 papers in the library · 97 citations · publishing 2018-2021

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Consciousness after split-brain surgery: The recent challenge to the classical picture.

Neuropsychologia September 17, 2021 Elizabeth Schechter, Tim Bayne 11 citations

In a recent series of experiments, Pinto and colleagues found that the split-brain patient D.D.C. was able to respond accurately to stimuli in either visual field, whether using his right hand, his left hand, or verbally. Pinto and colleagues argue that this demonstrates that a split-brain patient remains a unitary agent and thus continues to possess a unified consciousness. This paper provides...

Split-Brain: What We Know Now and Why This is Important for Understanding Consciousness

Neuropsychology Review May 12, 2020 Edward H.F. de Haan, Paul M. Corballis, Steven A. Hillyard et al. 86 citations

Recently, the discussion regarding the consequences of cutting the corpus callosum ("split-brain") has regained momentum (Corballis, Corballis, Berlucchi, & Marzi, Brain, 141(6), e46, 2018; Pinto et al., Brain, 140(5), 1231-1237, 2017a; Pinto, Lamme, & de Haan, Brain, 140(11), e68, 2017; Volz & Gazzaniga, Brain, 140(7), 2051-2060, 2017; Volz, Hillyard, Miller, & Gazzaniga, Brain, 141(3), e15,...

Subjects of Experience and Subjective Perspectives

Oxford Scholarship Online June 21, 2018 Elizabeth Schechter

This chapter offers a preliminary defense of the claim that the two hemispheres of a split-brain subject are associated with distinct subjects of experience. The empirical basis of this 2-subjects claim is that, while both hemispheres are the source or site of elements of experience, these elements are unified only within each hemisphere system, and not across them. In other words,...