Sometimes a person's corpus callosum is split, which separates the two hemispheres completely. This is done to
A) study the effects of a split brain.
B) change a person's personality.
C) determine the precise area of cognitive functioning.
D) control epilepsy.
Answer: D
Rationale: Staring in the 1960s, split-brain surgeries began to be used to treat extremely severe cases of epilepsy. It is a very rare operation, and it would be unthinkable to use it as an experimental procedure, despite the wealth of information researchers have attained by studying split-brain patients.
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