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 to point with the left hand to what they had seen?
A) They pointed to "ART."
B) They pointed to "HE."
C) They pointed to "HEART."
D) They were unable to respond, since they could no longer read.

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Since the left visual field of split-brain patients is processed by the right hemisphere, which is not connected to the language centers in the left hemisphere, participants were unable to verbally report what they had seen. However, they could point with their left hand to indicate what they had seen. In this experiment, when asked to point to what they had seen, participants pointed to "HE" since it appeared in their left visual field, which is processed by the right hemisphere.

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