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| A procedure to put one hemisphere of the brain to sleep for about a minute by injecting sodium amobarital(a sedative) into one of the carotid arteries, used to determine whether specific functions are lateralized. |
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| A patient who has had the corpus callosum, the major white matter tract connecting the two hemispheres, severed, cutting off communication between the hemispheres. The procedure is used as a last resort in cases of severe epilepsy to contain the seizures. |
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| A phenomenon where stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. |
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| Cross-Modal perception occurs when perception involves interactions between two or more different sensory modalities. |
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