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I read some brain encyclopedia ages ago, so details are a bit foggy, but when the connections between the two hemispheres of the brain gets injured/damaged it c
by thulle 3y ago
I read some brain encyclopedia ages ago, so details are a bit foggy, but when the connections between the two hemispheres of the brain gets injured/damaged it can have some really strange effects.
In the book they retold tests where they did things like showing a picture of a shovel to only one eye and ask the person to think of a garden tool, and they'd say shovel. Then they'd ask the person to explain why they're thinking of a shovel, and they'd tell some elaborate story like having met their neighbour a few days ago who said that they need to buy a shovel, or something similar. This due to the connection between the part(s) of the brain that constructs the story having severed connections to the parts the receives and processes the visual input of that eye. There was a few hundred pages of tests like these with wildly different effects depending on where the connections had been damaged.
Without injury the input should be shared just fine, but since the difference is so severe when the connections are damaged I guess (with no credentials or so to back it up) that there could be some hard-to-measure differences in thoughts formed depending on which eye is used.
- loa_in_ 3y agoSo it seems the answer would be yes, but we can't say how or to what extent.
- shagie 3y agoA severed corpus callosum - sometimes done to mitigate the effects of sever epilepsy (the seizure on one side of the brain can't travel to the other side). Scientific American Frontiers : severed corpus callosum https://youtu.be/lfGwsAdS9Dc https://youtu.be/lfGwsAdS9Dc
- callesgg 3y agoAn intressting thing with that, is that the side of the brain that controls speech might be completly accurate. It could have said showel cause that side of the brain thoght of its neighbors shovel. The only thing that it would be missing would be that it was influenced to think of that shovel event by input given to the other brain half.