creators_name: Zaidel, Dahlia W. editors_name: Critchley, E. M. R. type: bookchapter datestamp: 2000-08-13 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:22 metadata_visibility: show title: A view of the world from a split-brain perspective ispublished: pub subjects: neuro-neu subjects: neuro-psy subjects: phil-mind full_text_status: public keywords: commissurotomy, split-brain, callosotomy, humor, sleep, consciousness, disconnection syndrome, subcortical integration, dreams, dreaming, emotions, emotional expressions, quality of life, unity of consciousness, complete commissurotomy, alien hand, spatial perception, memory, evolution, jokes, puns. abstract: The extent to which observed behavior in the complete commissurotomy patients is supported by only one hemisphere would depend on individual differences interacting with a variety of factors such as genetics, intelligence, and so on. The lesson imparted here is that there is sufficient functional redundancy in the neocortex so that the capacity to maintain a wide range of abilities is within the control of one hemisphere. And, yet, as seen in what is missing in the patients' behavior, one hemisphere is not quite enough. Nature seems to have intended that the two hemispheres complement each other, that the full range of human behavior be best accomplished through interaction between the left and right hemispheres. date: 1994 date_type: published publication: Neurological Boundaries of Reality, edited by E. M. R. Critchley publisher: Farrand Press pagerange: 161-174 refereed: FALSE citation: Zaidel, Dahlia W. (1994) A view of the world from a split-brain perspective. [Book Chapter] document_url: http://cogprints.org/920/3/critchelyf.pdf