1. Each hemisphere was presented a picture that related to
one of four pictures placed in front of the split-brain subject.
2. The left and right hemispheres easily picked the right card.
The left hand pointed to the right hemisphere's choice, and the right hand pointed
to the left hemisphere's choice.
3. The patient was then asked why the left hand was pointing to the
shovel. Only the left hemisphere can talk, and it did not know the answer because
the decision to point to the shovel was made in the right hemisphere.
4. Immediately the left hemisphere made up a story about what it
could see --- the chicken. It said the right hemisphere chose the shovel to clean
out a chicken shed.
This reveals the left brain's interpreter in
action!
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Source: Gazzaniga, Michael S., "The Split Brain Revisited," Scientific
American, July 1998
