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The brief articles appearing in Psychonomic Science cannot possibly contain a full discussion or review of each subject introduced. In the present case the suggested addition would have left other dimensions of the problem uncovered. For those who do not know the history, it is as follows. Up until the mid-50s, the majority view in psychobiology was that the corpus callosum played little or no important role in integrating sensory or motor information across the cerebral hemispheres. This was in large part due to the seemingly exhaustive studies of Akelaitis (1941, 1943, 1944, 1942) at the University of Rochester who studied some 26 cases of partial and complete callosal section. His inability to demonstrate any reliable deficits undercut dozens of earlier studies—Poffenberger’s (1912) being but one. Lashley, after reviewing the literature at the time commented that the corpus callosum’s only function seemed to be to hold the cerebral hemispheres together.
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Gazzaniga, M.S. Reply to McKeever and Huling. Psychon Sci 22, 222–223 (1971). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03332580
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