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In the video on Joe's experiment after his surgery of removal of the corpus callosum, shows the importance of that specific nerve which connects the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere to work together. Scientists are trying to showing discoveries to their hypothesis; brain is made up independent agents. My observations were that the left and right hemisphere have independent functions and being disconnected from one another will not get satisfactory conclusions. When they showed Joe images on the right side of his vision,information will go to his left hemisphere he could easily name the item. In contrary when image was shown on his left side vision, which is connected to the right hemisphere of the brain,he could not name what he saw

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