Michael Gazzaniga's split-brain patients ____.
A) were unable to name objects they saw in their left visual field
B) could not determine the direction of sounds in the environment
C) had difficulty determining body position
D) gradually developed two separate personalities

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Split-brain patients have had the corpus callosum, the bundle of neural fibers connecting the two hemispheres of the brain, severed. This causes information presented to one hemisphere to be unable to be relayed to the other hemisphere. As a result, split-brain patients often have difficulty naming objects they see in their left visual field because that information is processed primarily in the right hemisphere, which is not able to communicate with the left hemisphere (where language centers are typically located).

Michael Gazzaniga's Split-Brain Patients ____