title: The Split-Brain debate revisited: On the importance of language and self-recognition for right hemispheric consciousness. 
creator: Morin, Alain
subject: Psychobiology
subject: Neuropsychology
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Philosophy of Mind
description: 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,
date: 2001
type: Journal (Paginated)
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/2475/1/JMB.PDF
identifier:   Morin, Alain  (2001) The Split-Brain debate revisited: On the importance of language and self-recognition for right hemispheric consciousness.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/2475/