A Split-Brain Patient Will Not Be Able to Verbally Identify

question 32

True/False

A split-brain patient will not be able to verbally identify a picture that is flashed to the left visual field (and therefore processed in the right hemisphere) but will be able to pick up the pictured object with his or her left hand.

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