Split-brain Research: Even Minimal Fiber Links Can Unify Consciousness

Split-brain Research: Even Minimal Fiber Links Can Unify Consciousness

In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators report that only a small section of intact corpus callosum — the bundle of nerves that connect the left and right hemispheres of the brain — can be enough to sustain full integration of the two halves of the brain. The discovery challenges decades of assumptions about split-brain func…