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The Subject in Neuropsychology: Individuating Minds in the Split‐Brain Case
Author(s) -
Schechter Elizabeth
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
mind and language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.905
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1468-0017
pISSN - 0268-1064
DOI - 10.1111/mila.12088
Subject(s) - intuition , psychology , neuropsychology , phenomenon , subject (documents) , cognitive psychology , cognitive science , epistemology , philosophy of mind , cognition , philosophy , neuroscience , metaphysics , computer science , library science
Many experimental findings with split‐brain subjects intuitively suggest that each such subject has two minds. The conceptual and empirical basis of this duality intuition has never been fully articulated. This article fills that gap, by offering a reconstruction of early neuropsychological literature on the split‐brain phenomenon. According to that work, the hemispheres operate independently of each other insofar as they interact via the mediation of effection and transduction—via behavior and sensation, essentially. This is how your mind and my mind interact with each other, however, giving rise to the intuition that a split‐brain subject has two minds.