When Myers and Sperry severed the corpus callosum in cats, they found that:
A) one side of the brain did not know what the other side was doing.
B) abnormal eating behaviours occurred because the cats could not regulate hunger.
C) the left side of the cats' bodies were not affected by this operation.
D) disorganized electrical activity spread from one hemisphere to the other.

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Severing the corpus callosum results in the two hemispheres of the brain being unable to communicate with one another. Therefore, information that is processed on one side of the brain stays on that side and cannot be shared with the other hemisphere. This means that one side of the brain does not know what the other side is doing.

When Myers and Sperry Severed the Corpus Callosum in Cats