Imagine that your corpus callosum has been sectioned to minimize your epileptic seizures. Suppose that your left nostril is plugged with cotton and that a fresh rose has been placed near your right nostril. Under these conditions, the rose would
A) generate a sensory message in your left hemisphere.
B) generate a sensory message in both hemispheres.
C) lead you to report the smell of a flower.
D) not generate a verbal report of this experience.
E) be identified as a flower.

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The right nostril sends sensory information to the right hemisphere, which is not responsible for language in most people. With the corpus callosum severed, the information cannot be transferred to the left hemisphere, which is typically responsible for verbal processing, so a verbal report is not generated.

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