+1 862 207 3288 The corpus callosum is a cluster of nerve fibres that allow the left and right hemispheres of the brain to communicate with each other so that they can share their information and function collaboratively. Studies conducted on patients with severe cases of epilepsy who have had surgery to cut the corpus callosum, in the hope of avoiding the spreading of seizures between hemispheres (Sperry, 1974, 1982; Wilson et al., 1977) support bio psychological findings that the two hemispheres have different functions, the left being found to specialise in language processing with the right hemisphere specialising in visual spatial processing…(short extract)
