Imagine that a picture of a cat is briefly flashed in the right visual field of an individual with a severed corpus callosum.At the same time, a picture of an apple is briefly flashed in the left visual field.Based on work with split brain patients, you could predict that this individual will say:
A)"I saw an apple."
B)"I saw a cat."
C)"I'm not sure what I saw; it looked like an apple with ears."
D)"I didn't see anything."

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Because the corpus callosum is severed, information presented in the left visual field will only be processed by the right hemisphere of the brain and information presented in the right visual field will only be processed by the left hemisphere of the brain. Research with split-brain patients has shown that when presented with two different images (one in each visual field), they will typically be able to only report the image presented in their right visual field (processed by the left hemisphere), which in this case would be the image of the cat.

Imagine That a Picture of a Cat Is Briefly Flashed