In Gazzaniga's experiment with split-brain patients in which the word HE appeared to the left of a fixation point and the word ART appeared to the right, how did participants respond when asked what they had seen?
A) They said, "ART."
B) They said, "HE."
C) They said, "HEART."
D) They were unable to respond, since they could no longer read.

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In Gazzaniga's split-brain experiments, the right hemisphere (which controls the left side of the body and processes information from the left visual field) does not have direct access to the speech centers located in the left hemisphere. When the word "ART" appeared to the right of the fixation point, it was processed by the left hemisphere (which controls speech and language), leading participants to report seeing "ART." The word "HE" presented to the left of the fixation point was processed by the right hemisphere, which could not verbalize this information directly.

In Gazzaniga's Experiment with Split-Brain Patients in Which the Word