Professor Michael Miller Explores The Boundaries Of Split-Brain Consciousness.

PBS professor Mike Miller has been studying split-brain patients for a number of years now, pioneering, along with emeritous PBS professor Michael Gazzaniga, inquiry into what the severing of the corpus callosum–a bundle of fibers typically connecting the brain's left and right hemispheres—can tell us about the normal functioning of the mind. In a new paper, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Professor Miller and his students and collaborators document that when the corpus callosum remains even minimally intact (observed in patients being treated for epilepsy) the functional synchronization of the brain’s two hemispheres remain largely unaffected, challenging simple views of how large-scale brain organization is achieved. For the full story see the UCSB Current article.