A similarity between a young child and a split-brain patient is that both:
A) show frequent spontaneous changes in personality.
B) have trouble describing what they see through the left eye.
C) have a greater than normal number of back-and-forth eye movements.
D) have trouble comparing what they feel with the two hands at one time.

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Both young children and split-brain patients have difficulty comparing and verbally describing sensory information from both sides of the body or from different senses simultaneously. In split-brain patients, the corpus callosum which connects the two hemispheres of the brain is severed, and so the left and right brain hemispheres are unable to communicate effectively. In young children, the connections between different areas of the brain are still developing and so they may struggle with integrating information from different senses or body parts. As a result, both groups may have difficulty comparing what they feel with the two hands at one time.

A Similarity Between a Young Child and a Split-Brain Patient