Multiple Choice
The primary reason for performing split-brain surgery on humans was to:
A) reduce the tremors, stiffness, and rigidity of severe Parkinson's disease.
B) find out what each half of the brain can do, cut off from the other.
C) find out whether the two hemispheres would develop an alternate means of communication.
D) reduce the seizures in patients with debilitating, uncontrollable epilepsy.
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