"2475","The Split-Brain debate revisited: On the importance of language and self-recognition for right hemispheric consciousness. ","In this commentary I use recent empirical evidence and theoretical analyses concerning the importance of language and the meaning of self-recognition to reevaluate the claim that the right mute hemisphere in commissurotomized patients possesses a full consciousness. Preliminary data indicate that inner speech is deeply linked to self-awareness; also, four hypotheses concerning the crucial role inner speech plays in self-focus are presented. The legitimacy of self-recognition as a strong operationalization of self-awareness in the right hemisphere is also questioned on the basis that it might rather tap a preexisting body awareness having little to do with an access to mental events. I conclude with the formulation of an alternative interpretation of commissurotomy according to    self-awareness — a “complete” one in the left hemisphere and a “primitive” one in the right hemisphere,","http://cogprints.org/2475/","Morin, Alain","UNSPECIFIED","       <span class=\"person_name\">Morin, Alain</span>     (2001)  <a href=\"http://cogprints.org/2475/\"><em>The Split-Brain debate revisited: On the importance of language and self-recognition for right hemispheric consciousness.</em></a>       [Journal (Paginated)]           ","","2001"