When an object is placed in the right hand of a split brain patient, the patient would:

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Split brain patients have severed corpus callosum that prevents communication between the two hemispheres of the brain. The right hemisphere is responsible for processing information from the left side of the body and can perceive objects held in the right hand, but cannot verbally communicate this information. However, the left hemisphere, which controls speech and language, is not aware of the object, so the patient cannot give an accurate guess or description. Naming the object is the best choice because it only requires the left hemisphere to communicate verbally.

When an Object Is Placed in the Right Hand of a Split