Neurociencia Cognitiva Gazzaniga.pdf [extra Quality] Guide

Gazzaniga’s research and his textbooks cover several "pillars" of the modern understanding of the brain. 1. The Split-Brain Theory

Michael Gazzaniga's Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind Neurociencia Cognitiva Gazzaniga.pdf

Gazzaniga's research on split-brain patients revealed some remarkable insights into the neural basis of cognition. For example, he found that when a word was presented to one hemisphere of the brain, the patient could identify the word, but when the word was presented to the other hemisphere, the patient could not. This suggested that the two hemispheres of the brain have different specialized functions, with the left hemisphere being more involved in language processing and the right hemisphere being more involved in spatial processing. the patient could identify the word