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.
Question 2
The two hemispheres of the brain sometimes perform different tasks (lateral dominance). However, information is passed back and forth between hemispheres so that the brain can function as a whole. This interhemispheric communication depends on the ____.
a. association cortex
b. thalamus
c. somatosensory cortex
d. corpus callosum
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