Cerebral specialization and interhemispheric communication: does the corpus callosum enable the human condition?

MS Gazzaniga - Brain, 2000‏ - academic.oup.com
The surgical disconnection of the cerebral hemispheres creates an extraordinary opportunity
to study basic neurological mechanisms: the organization of the sensory and motors …

Forty-five years of split-brain research and still going strong

MS Gazzaniga - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2005‏ - nature.com
Forty-five years ago, Roger Sperry, Joseph Bogen and I embarked on what are now known
as the modern split-brain studies. These experiments opened up new frontiers in brain …

[ספר][B] The unity of consciousness

T Bayne - 2012‏ - books.google.com
In The Unity of Consciousness Tim Bayne draws on philosophy, psychology, and
neuroscience in defence of the claim that consciousness is unified. In the first part of the …

Pure alexia as a disconnection syndrome: new diffusion imaging evidence for an old concept

S Epelbaum, P Pinel, R Gaillard, C Delmaire, M Perrin… - cortex, 2008‏ - Elsevier
Functional neuroimaging and studies of brain-damaged patients made it possible to
delineate the main components of the cerebral system for word reading. However, the …

Selective Age-related Degradation of Anterior Callosal Fiber Bundles Quantified In Vivo with Fiber Tracking

EV Sullivan, E Adalsteinsson, A Pfefferbaum - Cerebral cortex, 2006‏ - academic.oup.com
The corpus callosum, the principal white matter structure enabling interhemispheric
information transfer, is heterogeneous in its microstructural composition, heterotopic in its …

White matter modifications of corpus callosum in bipolar disorder: A DTI tractography review

G Videtta, L Squarcina, MG Rossetti, P Brambilla… - Journal of Affective …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Background The recent widespread use of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) tractography
allowed researchers to investigate the diffusivity modifications and neuroanatomical …

[ספר][B] The asymmetrical brain

K Hugdahl, RJ Davidson - 2003‏ - books.google.com
The folk belief that the left brain hemisphere is dominant for language and the right for
visuospatial functions is incomplete and even misleading. Research shows that …

Residual functional connectivity in the split-brain revealed with resting-state functional MRI

LQ Uddin, E Mooshagian, E Zaidel, A Scheres… - …, 2008‏ - journals.lww.com
Split-brain patients present a unique opportunity to address controversies regarding
subcortical contributions to interhemispheric coordination. We characterized residual …

Neuroimaging techniques offer new perspectives on callosal transfer and interhemispheric communication

KW Doron, MS Gazzaniga - Cortex, 2008‏ - Elsevier
The brain relies on interhemispheric communication for coherent integration of cognition
and behavior. Surgical disconnection of the two cerebral hemispheres has granted …

Increased anterior corpus callosum size associated positively with hypnotizability and the ability to control pain

JE Horton, HJ Crawford, G Harrington, JH Downs III - Brain, 2004‏ - academic.oup.com
This is the first MRI study to report differences in brain structure size between low and highly
hypnotizable, healthy, right-handed young adults. Participants were stringently screened for …