The Two Cerebral Hemispheres of the Brain are Identical- Discuss.
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... The Two Cerebral Hemispheres of the Brain are Identical- Discuss. The human brain is made up of a number of very complex parts that can be broadly divided into the left and right hemisphere. To a casual observer these two hemispheres can seem identical, containing much the same sub-components. They are joined together and communicate through four bundles of axons known as commissures. The most important of these inter hemispheric channels is the corpus collosum, which connects the neo-cortex of each hemisphere together. The first theories concerning the hemispheres of the brain concerned the two being identical, with each controlling the functions and actions of the contralateral side of the body (e.g. the right hemisphere would control the sensory functions of the left visual field and the motor functions of the left limbs). This idea and others like it have since been superseded by findings that have shown that there














