In Michael Gazzaniga's experiments with split-brain patients, he found that
A) The patients were not able to speak the names of the objects that they saw.
B) The patients were only able to draw the objects that they saw.
C) The patients could not speak the name of objects shown to the right brain, but could draw the objects with their left hands.
D) The patients could not draw or speak the names of the objects shown to the left brain.

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Michael Gazzaniga's experiments with split-brain patients revealed that when objects were shown to the right hemisphere (which controls the left hand), patients could not verbally identify them due to the speech control centers being in the left hemisphere. However, they were able to draw these objects with their left hand, demonstrating non-verbal, spatial processing capabilities of the right hemisphere.

In Michael Gazzaniga's Experiments with Split-Brain Patients, He Found That