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Hemispheric asymmetries: a brain in two minds
1Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK. vin@psy.ox.ac.uk
Current Biology : CB
|June 30, 2000
Abstract:
The two cerebral hemispheres are specialised for different cognitive functions, and which hemisphere's strategy is superior depends on the nature of the task. A new study of split-brain patients has provided another unexpected insight: the two hemispheres use different strategies when performing a guessing task.