When Myers and Sperry severed the corpus callosum in cats they found that:
A) the left side of the cat's body was not affected by this operation.
B) abnormal eating behaviours occurred because the cats could not regulate hunger.
C) one side of the brain did not know what the other side was doing.
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 effectively with each other, leading to the phenomenon known as split-brain. This means that each hemisphere may not be aware of what the other hemisphere is processing or doing. This was observed in cats when Myers and Sperry severed their corpus callosum.

When Myers and Sperry Severed the Corpus Callosum in Cats