This article presents a method for simulating the behavior and perceptual deficits demonstrated by patients who have undergone the split-brain, or commissurotomy, surgical procedure. The volunteers sit next to each other in a manner that requires them to accomplish certain tasks as one person. Several easily staged activities, which require only readily available materials, show how split-brain patients illustrate certain lateralized cerebral hemispheric functions.
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