Practice question · True or false
In a healthy person with an intact corpus callosum, an object seen only in the left visual field CAN be named aloud, because the hemispheres share the information.
Hints
- What is different here from the split-brain case?
- With the callosum intact, the right hemisphere can pass the information to the left speech hemisphere.
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True
Why
True. With the callosum intact, information reaching the right hemisphere is shared with the left speech hemisphere, so the object can be named - unlike the split-brain case. This isolates the corpus callosum as the structure that makes naming possible.
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