What Can Split - Brain Studies Tell Us About The Lateralization Of Brain Function

What can split brain studies tell us about the lateralization of brain function.

Nowadays, industry of medicine has shown a great jump developing in technology and gaining more data about human body compared to past times when heart or genetic code operations were only a dream but even with current progress in medical world people don’t know a lot about the brain. The brain is the most complex organ in the human body, if we could call person a machine the mechanism that is responsible for producing every individual’s thought, action, memory, feeling and experience of the world would be the brain. It is like jelly mass containing billions of neurons, glia and it is bilateral, can be separated to distinct lobes. In order to understand better and delve into the structure of brain researchers rose a question ‘what will happen with individual when corpus callosum will be surgically cut, blocking communication between the two cerebral hemispheres?’. Some investigators perceive that by separating left and right lobe person will be able to receive information but not digest it or take no action depending on the hemisphere that will stay, whereas other researchers think that removing left side of brain will result in losing ability in logic, speech and language and if right holistic thinking and intuition. To find correct solution ideas were compared with Roger Sperry’s (1959–1968), Michaels S. Gazzaniga (1985) experiments on split brains.

To begin with, Roger Sperry began research on split-brain in late 1950s (1959-1968) to determine the function of the corpus callosum.