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- Surgeons sometimes sever a person's corpus callosum to stop seizures. These patients are then known as split-brain patients.
- The right side of the body is connected to the left side of the brain.
- The left side of the body is connected to the right side of the brain.
- The right and left hemispheres specialize in handling different sorts of information.
- For most people, the left hemisphere is most responsible for language.
- For most people, the right hemisphere is most responsible for spatial tasks and emotions.
- In people with nonsplit brains, the hemispheres work interdependently.
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