%A Alain Morin
%J The Journal of Mind and Behavior
%T The Split-Brain debate revisited: On the importance of language and self-recognition for right hemispheric consciousness. 
%X 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,
%N 2
%D 2001
%L cogprints2475
%V 22

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