Hemispheric lateralisation and split brain research

• Certain mental processes and behaviours are controlled or dominated by one hemisphere of the brain rather than the other.

  Hemispheric lateralisation
• Corpus callosum cut in patients with severe epilepsy, allowing researchers to investigate the extent to which brain function is lateralised.


  Split brain studies
• Refers to the idea that the two halves of the brain are functionally different.

  Hemispheric lateralisation