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I admit, this excerpt, was a bit out of context. But its an example of how a separated brain lives in the now. That is how my mother=in=law has lived after the surgery to this day. I spoke with the Doctor after over 40 years of research he said we just don’t know where or what it is we actually are able to determine about our memory. This is both reassuring we are not all so far out there and also concerning so many people think we are closer to connecting the dots in this mystery of the brain than we are, today. That’s why I believe in the work you all are doing.

The Doctor who did was involved with the research before and after my mother-in-law had the brain surgery where they separated her left and right hemispheres for seizure control back in 1963 has written the following. My mother-in-law after this surgery definitely lives in the now. SCIENTIST AT WORK: MICHAEL GAZZANIGA; A Career Spent Learning How the Mind Emerges From the

By CARL ZIMMER
Published: May 10, 2005
CORRECTION APPENDED

Photo: Dr. Michael Gazzaniga is a veteran neuroscientist and a fledgling bioethicist as a member of President Bush’s Council on Bioethics. (Photo by Rick Friedman for The New York Times)

Their first clue came from an experiment Dr. Gazzaniga carried out with Dr. Joseph LeDoux, now at New York University. A patient called P.S. was shown a picture, and was then asked to choose a related image from a set of other pictures. What P.S. didn’t know was that he was being shown a different image in each eye.

Dr. Gazzaniga and Dr. LeDoux showed P.S. a picture of a chicken claw in his right eye and a snow-covered house in the left eye. P.S. pointed to a chicken with his right hand and a snow shovel with his left.

”I’ll never forget the day we got around to asking P.S., ‘Why did you do that?”’ said Dr. Gazzaniga. ”He said, ‘The chicken claw goes with the chicken.’ That’s all the left hemisphere saw. And then he looks at the shovel and said, ‘The reason you need a shovel is to clean out the chicken shed.”’

Dr. Gazzaniga hypothesized that P.S.’s left hemisphere made up a story to explain his actions, based on the limited information it received. Dr. Gazzaniga and his colleagues have carried out the same experiment hundreds of times since, and the left hemisphere has consistently acted this way.

”The interpreter tells the story line of a person,” Dr. Gazzaniga said. ”It’s collecting all the information that is in all these separate systems that are distributed through the brain.” While the story feels like an unfiltered picture of reality, it’s just a quickly-thrown-together narrative.

In the late 1970’s, Dr. Gazzaniga rallied his colleagues to turn this sort of research into a full-fledged field, which they called cognitive neuroscience. He helped organize a scientific society and started a journal, and every five years he edits a gigantic tome summarizing what scientists know about how the mind emerges from the brain.

”More than anyone else, Mike Gazzaniga created the field of cognitive neuroscience,” said Dr. George Miller, a cognitive psychologist at Princeton.