单词 | split-brain |
释义 | > as lemmassplit-brain split-brain adj. used with reference to a person or animal whose corpus callosum has been severed or is lacking, so that there is no direct connection between the two halves of the brain. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [adjective] > of brain anencephalous1820 anencephalic1821 anencephaloid1857 porencephalous1883 porencephalic1886 split-brain1958 the world > life > the body > nervous system > cerebrospinal axis > brain > parts of brain > [adjective] > commissure > having no spec. acallosal1907 split-brain1958 1958 R. W. Sperry in Harlow & Woolsey Biol. & Biochem. Bases Behavior 418 In recent efforts to learn more about connectivity principles in perceptual integration, we have been putting to use the demonstrated functional independence of the two hemispheres in what we have come to call the ‘split-brain’ preparation... In these split-brain animals one can leave intact a whole hemisphere to maintain generalized background function. 1968 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. I. xxiv. 94/2 At times, the non-dominant hand may ‘go off on its own’ and have to be restricted by the dominant hand. One begins to doubt whether a split brain man is singular or plural. But in no sense does he resemble a schizophrenic, in spite of the layman's interpretation of that word. 1972 R. E. Ornstein Psychol. of Consciousness ii. 55 In day-to-day living, these ‘split-brain’ people exhibit almost no abnormality. < as lemmas |
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