A surgeon had severed Barbara's corpus callosum in order to reduce the severity of her epileptic seizures.After the surgery,when she was shown an image in her left visual field,she could not ____.
A)see it
B)point to it with her left hand
C)name it
D)remember it

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The corpus callosum connects the two hemispheres of the brain. When severed, information presented to the left visual field (processed by the right hemisphere) cannot be verbally named because the language centers are typically in the left hemisphere, which is disconnected.

A Surgeon Had Severed Barbara's Corpus Callosum in Order to Reduce