In the Visual Ability test, a split-brain patient was shown an image in the left visual field but could not name the object. Explain why and identify the specialized functions that were discovered with regard to hemispheric lateralization. Consider some of the difficulties the split-brain operation causes and the strategies you would recommend to help a patient manage them. Was it ethical to do this study? Was it right to trade the suffering experienced by participants for the knowledge gained by the research?

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This can be explained in three steps, each cerebral hemisphere of the primary somatosensory cortex only contains a tactile representation of the opposite side of the brain. Step two contains the fact that most human and the speech control center are on the left side of the brain and that communication between the two sides of the brain is inhibited. In the case that speech-control center is on the right side of the brain, the object b touched only with the right hand to achieve the same effect. The same effect also occurs on visual..

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