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Plasticity of Neural Maturation
Roger W. Sperry
- pp 306-327
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The article was published on 1968-01-01. It has received 62 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Developmental plasticity & Plasticity.read more
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Interhemispheric relationships: the neocortical commissures; syndromes of hemisphere disconnection
TL;DR: Akelaitis et al. as discussed by the authors examined a series of more than two dozen patients with partial and complete surgical sections of the corpus callosum and anterior commissure and was unable to find any consistent neurological or psychological dysfunctions that could be reliably attributed to the commissural sections.
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Some effects of disconnecting the cerebral hemispheres
TL;DR: To start by looking back a little, recall that even a small brain lesion, if critically located in the left or language hemisphere, may selectively destroy a person's ability to read, while at the same time sparing speech and the ability to converse.
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Psychological compensation: a theoretical framework.
Lars Bäckman,Roger A. Dixon +1 more
TL;DR: The authors reviewed a variety of literatures in which the concept of compensation is used and integrated the results of this review into a general framework of compensation, focusing on four domains of psychological inquiry: compensation for sensory handicaps, cognitive deficits, interpersonal losses and brain injury.
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A house divided? Cognitive functioning with callosal agenesis.
TL;DR: Current evidence does not conclusively establish that the corpus callosum is needed for lateralized development of some functions, but it may play a role in the satisfactory performance of “lateralized” (i.e., spatial, linguistic) functions.
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Direct contact with enriched environment is required to alter cerebral weights in rats.
TL;DR: Active contact with an enriched environment appears necessary for development of EC effects, with usual pattern of EC-IC differences in brain weights appeared, whereas OC showed no significant differences from IC.
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Binocular interaction in striate cortex of kittens reared with artificial squint.
David H. Hubel,Torsten N. Wiesel +1 more
TL;DR: The object of the present study was to influence cortical connections by some means less drastic than covering one or both eyes, and produced a divergent strabismus by cutting one of the extraocular muscles in each of four newborn kittens.
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Hemisphere deconnection and unity in conscious awareness.
TL;DR: The following article is a result of studies my colleagues and I have been conducting with some neurosurgical patients of Philip J. Vogel of Los Angeles, in whom an extensive midline section of the cerebral commissures had been carried out in an effort to contain severe epileptics not controlled by medication.
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Cerebral Organization and Behavior
TL;DR: The split brain behaves in many respects like two separate brains, providing new research possibilities, according to researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Adult Status of Children with Contrasting Early Life Experiences
TL;DR: A growth-promoting environment may be the result of planned and carefully contrived conditions as discussed by the authors, and the optimal environment for the young child in this manner is highly probable and economic providing the variables that underlie such a milieu are well defined, the optimal position on each and their interrelationships are known and are amenable to construction in a given society at a given time.