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split brain

n
(Psychiatry) a brain in which the tracts connecting the two halves of the cerebral cortex have been surgically split or are missing from birth
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Schechter introduces the fundamental puzzle raised by split brain patients: All three of the following intuitions seem to be true, but they are inconsistent:
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Sperry's 'split brain theory' won for him the prestigious Nobel Prize in Medicine, although he was not a physician.
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