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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

From the Vault: Split Brain, Part 1

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Social Sciences, Science, Life Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Our brains are composed of two hemispheres, but in what ways are they truly separate? In which ways are they one? In this bisected Stuff to Blow Your Mind exploration, Robert Lamb and Joe McCormick explore what we’ve learned from split brain experiments in animals and humans. (originally published 1/15/2019)

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0:00.0

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0:04.4

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0:59.6

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1:10.0

and figure out our lives. But what can psychology teach us about this time?

1:15.2

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1:21.1

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1:27.5

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1:47.7

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam.

1:50.9

And I'm Joe McCormick, and it's Saturday, time for a Vault episode, a classic episode of Stuff to Blow

1:56.6

Your Mind. This is part one of our exploration of the split brain experiments. This episode was

2:02.2

originally published January 15, 2019. If you have not listened to these episodes, you've probably

2:08.0

listened to episodes where we refer back to them, or even older episodes where we kind of laid

2:12.4

the groundwork for actually doing this exploration, because this is an important topic. How does our

2:18.8

brain work? What happens? And what is revealed when there is a division in the brain, when

2:25.7

hemispheres are separated from each other? There's some groundbreaking experiments that we cover in

2:31.5

these episodes. Yeah, this pair of episodes is one of my favorites, and we hope you enjoy it.

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