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Specificity and Plasticity in Interhemispheric Integration: Evidence from Callosal Agenesis

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Duality and Unity of the Brain

Part of the book series: Wenner-Gren Center International Symposium Series ((WGCISS,volume 47))

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The failure of growth of the corpus callosum as a commissural bridge between the cerebral hemispheres is a rare condition (Ettlinger, 1977), and it is particularly rare for such individuals to grow to maturity and to be otherwise essentially normal in cognitive and neurological terms. However the systematic behavioural study of these unusual individuals may contribute to both of the issues which constituted the subtitle of this conference: namely, the “unified functioning” and “specialization” of the hemispheres.

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Jeeves, M.A., Milner, A.D. (1987). Specificity and Plasticity in Interhemispheric Integration: Evidence from Callosal Agenesis. In: Ottoson, D. (eds) Duality and Unity of the Brain. Wenner-Gren Center International Symposium Series, vol 47. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1949-8_25

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