Reference no: EM133566726

Questions:

1. Why did Joe have his corpus callosum severed?

2. When an image is flashed to Joe's right visual field, what is his verbal response when he is asked what he saw?

3. When an image is flashed to Joe's left visual field, what is his verbal response when he is asked what he saw? What is his written response, when asked to draw with his left hand?

4. Toward the end of the video, the researcher discusses an artist who made faces out of objects such as books or fruit.

a. When his right visual field is shown an image of a face made of fruit, and he is asked to point to the word that describes what he saw, which word does he point to?

b. When his left visual field is shown the exact same image, and he is asked to point to the word that describes what he saw, which word does he point to?

c. What does this difference in responses tell us about specialized skills in each hemisphere of the brain?