Juan Has His Corpus Callosum Severed to Prevent Whole-Brain Seizures

question 78

Multiple Choice

Juan has his corpus callosum severed to prevent whole-brain seizures.Now,he sits in front of a screen and stares at a dot in the middle,while simple visual stimuli are flashed briefly to the left and right of the dot.What will Juan be able to do with this stimuli?

• A) Juan will be able to name stimuli on the left, but not on the right.
• B) Juan will be able to name stimuli on the right, but not on the left.
• C) Juan will not be able to name any of the stimuli.
• D) Juan will be able to name all of the stimuli.

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