@misc{cogprints2475,
          volume = {22},
          number = {2},
           title = {The Split-Brain debate revisited: On the importance of language and self-recognition for right hemispheric consciousness. },
          author = {Alain Morin},
            year = {2001},
         journal = {The Journal of Mind and Behavior},
             url = {http://cogprints.org/2475/},
        abstract = {In this commentary I use recent empirical evidence and
theoretical analyses concerning the importance of language and the meaning of self-recognition to reevaluate the claim that the right mute hemisphere in commissurotomized patients possesses a full consciousness. Preliminary data indicate that inner speech is deeply linked to self-awareness; also, four hypotheses concerning the crucial role inner speech plays in self-focus are presented. The legitimacy of self-recognition as a strong operationalization of self-awareness in the right hemisphere is also questioned on the basis that it might rather tap a preexisting body awareness having little to do with an access to mental events. I conclude with the formulation of an alternative interpretation of commissurotomy according to    self-awareness {--} a ?complete? one in the left hemisphere and a ?primitive? one in the right hemisphere,}
}

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