He describes a patient whose moral reasoning has been disrupted by surgery to separate the hemispheres, who then judges that it is acceptable for a waitress to serve sesame seeds to someone she thinks is allergic to them, but who is not.
Their project was inspired by introductory neurobiology school lessons that ascribed different activities to the two hemispheres of the brain.
The title, Fissure, can refer to a crack in a rock, the split between the two hemispheres of the brain and the separation of two people.
Another example in addition to those you cite in your post is that the corpus callosum (fibers that connect the two hemispheres in the brain) tends to be thicker in women than in men.
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The same split-brain research that exposed shocking differences between the two hemispheres also revealed that the human left hemisphere has the interpreter.
The connections between the two hemispheres is better developed in females generally.
There is, to some degree, a physiological cause for this apparent divergence: the two halves, or hemispheres, of the brain.
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It is already known that men have fewer connections between the left and right hemispheres of their brain.
Clouds and storms form along it because it is literally where the winds of the world's hemispheres meet.
Meantime, almost every major central bank in the western and eastern hemispheres is committed to an easy money policy.
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We also know that moms have a larger connective area between the right and left hemispheres that helps allow their brains to be more efficient in gathering, synthesizing and integrating new messages.
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This relies on the fact that brains have two hemispheres, but most language-processing is done in only one of them.
"Even though they seem far away, changes in the polar regions could have an impact on both hemispheres, with sea level rise and changes in climate patterns, " he said.
It is almost as though the body has been carelessly glued together from two preformed hemispheres.
Let's face it: Schwarzman et al are changing the face of capitalism not only here but in both hemispheres.
These revealed that the cancer had spread to her brain, with at least nine metastatic growths across both hemispheres.
But as a great cultural experiment, the music and performances in concert bespoke Mr. Sarmast's current success across two hemispheres.
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