Michael Egnor on Splitting the Brain and Staying You

Mind Matters

Mar 12 2020 | 00:16:10

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Show Notes

If you lose all four of your limbs, are you still you? Most people would say yes. What if your brain were cut into two pieces? Would you still be you? Robert J. Marks and Dr. Michael Egnor discuss splitting the brain and the research of Roger Sperry. Show Notes 00:30 | Introducing Dr. Michael Egnor, Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics at State University of New York, Stony Brook 01:45 | The research of Roger Sperry 02:56 | Corpus callosotomy vs. frontal lobotomy 04:06 | Splitting the brain 05:28 | What happens when you split the brain? 07:59 | Perceptual Read More ›

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