In the condition called _____, a person with damage to the right parietal and occipital lobes of the cortex will ignore everything in the left visual field.
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Roger Sperry was looking for a cure for which disease when researching differentiation of the left and right hemispheres of the brain?
A
Epilepsy
B
Parkinson's
C
Spatial neglect
D
Aphasia

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Understand the context of Roger Sperry's research, which focused on the differentiation of the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
Recognize that Sperry's work is most famously associated with split-brain research, which involves studying patients who have had the corpus callosum severed.
Identify the primary reason for severing the corpus callosum, which is to reduce the severity of epileptic seizures.
Consider the options provided: Epilepsy, Parkinson's, Spatial neglect, and Aphasia.
Connect the purpose of Sperry's research on split-brain patients to the treatment of epilepsy, as this was the condition he was primarily addressing.
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