The Right Hemisphere, lnterhemispheric Communication, and Consciousness
Orrin Devinsky, Mark D’Esposito
Neurology Of Cognitive And Behavioral Disorders October 16, 2003 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780195137644.003.0003 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that the two cerebral hemispheres should be regarded as two distinct and entire organs rather than as parts of a single organ, comparing them to the two eyes and claiming that the commissures connecting them do not make them one organ. |
Abstract
Abstract: 7 believe it then to be entirely unphilosophical, and tending to important errors, to speak of the cerebrum as one organ . . . The two hemispheres of the brain are really . . . two distinct and entire organs . . . os fully perfect in all its parts . . . 05 the two eyes. The corpus callosum, and the other commissures between them, can with no more justice be said to constitute the two hemispheres into one organ than the optic commissure can be called an union of the two eyes into one organ.