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People with half a brain removed do well at face and word recognition | New Scientist
People with half a brain removed do well at face and word recognition .
Adults who had the left or right hemisphere of their brain removed as children to treat epileptic seizures had accuracy scores of over 80 per cent on word and face recognition tasks
Health 15 August 2022 By Jason Arunn Murugesu
Having the left or right hemisphere of the brain removed as a child to treat epileptic seizures may not affect a person’s ability to recognise words or faces as an adult
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Adults who had one half of their brain removed in childhood to treat seizures can still recognise faces and words at a reasonably high level, suggesting that the organ can reorganise itself after major childhood surgery.
It is typically understood that word recognition is generally processed in the left hemisphere of the brain and face recognition occurs in the right …
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