split brain confabulation

02Mar09

Reading Chapter One of Jonathan Haidt’s book The Happiness Hypothesis (online here) there is mention of confabulation, which I’d read  about in Ramachandran’s Phantoms in the Brain (Reith lectures here) – (He was working with people who had had the connection between the two halves of the brain cut) “When Gazzaniga flashed different pictures to [...]

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