Split-Brain Cases

The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 181-193

  Colvin, Mary K ^a   Gazzaniga, Michael S ^b  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilateral representation; Consciousness; Information; Learning; Split brain

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650645245     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470751466.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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