The Brain As Storyteller
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The Brain As Storyteller

by Alessandro Gagliardi

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In the mid-20th century, some folks with intractable epilepsy underwent heroic surgery to separate the two halves of the brain by cutting the corpus callosum. What was remarkable was that, at first, nothing seemed very different about them. But after interviewing them, some clever researchers came up with some interesting experiments to see what had changed. One experiment, in particular, tells us a lot about how we construct our sense of self.

BrainStorytellingEpilepsySurgeryCorpus CallosumExperimentsSelfSplit BrainHemisphereSplit Brain ResearchBrain HemispheresSelf ConstructionBrain Storytellings

Meet your Teacher

Alessandro Gagliardi

New York, NY, USA

Meet your Teacher

Alessandro Gagliardi

New York, NY, USA