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WORK carried out during the past few years with patients whose neocortical commissures have been surgically divided for the control of epilepsy has revealed an organizational differentiation of the hemispheres for perceptual and cognitive functions1,2.
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LEVY, J. Possible Basis for the Evolution of Lateral Specialization of the Human Brain. Nature 224, 614–615 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/224614a0
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