<story><title>Split Brain Does Not Lead to Split Consciousness</title><url>http://neurosciencenews.com/split-brain-consciousness-6011/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>insickness</author><text>A few years before he died, I heard Kim Peek speak at an event. He was a savant who retained 98% of everything he read. He would memorize phone books simply by reading them once. When he read, his left eye would read the left page while his right eye would read the right page at the same time. He could tell anyone the sports scores listed in the newspaper on the day they were born. He was also severely socially impaired and couldn&amp;#x27;t carry on a conversation.&lt;p&gt;His father described his condition as being due to having his left and right hemisphere fused together where as most people&amp;#x27;s are separate with communication channels between them.</text></comment>
<story><title>Split Brain Does Not Lead to Split Consciousness</title><url>http://neurosciencenews.com/split-brain-consciousness-6011/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>advisedwang</author><text>Interestingly this work contradicts not just previous theory, but also previous experimental result. I would be interested to see if they have a critique for why the previous runs of the experiment provided a different experimental result.</text></comment>