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Four split-brain monkeys showing EEG evidence of secondary discharges were trained to make tactile discriminations. No impairment in learning was found for the hand contralateral to the secondary hemisphere. This supports the view that epileptic discharges in the absence of cortical damage are unable to disrupt learning of tactile discrimination tasks.
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Lowrie, M.B., Ettlinger, G. Tactile discrimination performance in split-brain monkeys with secondary posterior parietal discharges. Psychol. Res 39, 389–392 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00308934
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00308934