In Nobel Prize research beginning in the 1960s, Roger W. Sperry and colleagues studied the effects of cutting the forebrain commissures in patients as a radical treatment for intractable epilepsy.

This is a guest post by Yair Pinto, Ph.D. The main part of your brain is your neocortex. This is where, supposedly, your conscious awareness resides. The neocortex is a dual organ, just like your ...