title: Does cognition in the disconnected right hemisphere require right hemisphere possession of language?
abstract: It has been asserted at times that the human right hemisphere is cognitively inferior to that of a chimpanzee or even a monkey. Related is the even stronger claim that human consciousness, as well as cognition, requires language. These claims are discussed, and counterexamples are presented from both split-brain subjects and patients hemispherectomized in adulthood after customary development as righthanders.
authors.affiliation: USC, USA.
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Bogen
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003337:Corpus Callosum / Q000601:surgery*; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language