In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators report that only a small section of ...

In Nobel Prize research beginning in the 1960s, Roger W. Sperry and colleagues studied the effects of cutting the forebrain commissures in patients as a radical treatment for intractable epilepsy.

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — In findings that raise a variety of questions about how our brains work, and even about the nature of consciousness, UC Santa Barbara researchers report that only a small ...

What would happen if your brain was split in two? In this recent Invisibilia podcast and show, host Hanna Rosin meets a woman named Karen with "alien hand syndrome." After surgery to treat her ...

Here’s a notion that might make some science feathers ruffle: decades of neurosurgical data imply your mind may not be entirely contained in your brain. For anyone indoctrinated with the “you are your ...

A study tracking thousands of neurons shows how the brain separates memory content from context to support flexible recall.