What is "callosum"

Usage examples of "callosum".

Paget and Henry mention cases in which the corpora callosum, the fornix, and septum lucidum were imperfectly formed.

The unexpected and welcome result was that the frequency and intensity of the seizures declined dramatically in both hemispheres-as if there had previously been a positive feedback, with the epileptic electrical activity in each hemisphere stimulating the other through the corpus callosum.

The normal behavior and appearance of split-brain patients in itself suggests that the function of the corpus callosum is subtle.

It is vital not to overestimate the separation of functions on either side of the corpus callosum in a normal human being.

The existence of so complex a cabling system as the corpus callosum must mean, it is important to stress again, that interaction of the hemispheres is a vital human function.

In addition to the corpus callosum there is another neural cabling between the left and right hemispheres, which is called the anterior commissure.

In human split-brain experiments in which the corpus callosum is cut, but not the anterior commissure, olfactory information is invariably transferred between the hemispheres.

The results indicate that, in the normal brain, the right hemisphere does very little processing of language but instead transmits what it has observed across the corpus callosum to the left hemisphere, where the entire word is put together.

The robot surgeon delicately implanted a sensor pad into her corpus callosum, the bridge of nervous tissue between the two hemispheres of her brain.

HQ, past the heavier door to the tiled lattice of hallways to the squash and racquetball courts and one volleyball court and the airy corpus callosum of 24 high-ceiling tennis courts endowed by an M.

We might say that human culture is the function of the corpus callosum.

I CALLED ANDY the next morning, told him about what I had found about the corpus callosum, and further explained my idea of bacteria acting as catalysts for our consciousness.

If both hemispheres are left in place and the corpus callosum is cut, coordination is lost and the two body halves come under more or less independent control.

Until you get some decent regeneration in the corpus callosum, there'll be referred signals like this.

The implant at the top of the skull had some kind of link to the centre of the brain: to the corpus callosum, the fleshy bundle of nerve fibres between the hemispheres.