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 behaviors 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, which is the bundle of nerve fibers connecting the two hemispheres of the brain, results in the inability of the hemispheres to communicate with each other. Therefore, one side of the brain does not know what the other side is doing. This was observed in the cats as well.

When Myers and Sperry Severed the Corpus Callosum in Cats