Jiří Charvát

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In one of Gazzaniga's original studies of the split-brain patients,6 the experimenters presented the right brain with a video of a person being thrown into a fire. This very likely aroused the patient's nervous system and stimulated fear in the right brain, but the subject's left brain was clueless as to why and left searching for an explanation. She said, “I don't know why, but I feel kind of scared. I feel jumpy. I don't like this room, or maybe you are making me nervous.” Later, to another researcher, her left brain said, “I know
No Self, No Problem: How Neuropsychology Is Catching Up to Buddhism
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