split-brain technique

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   brain surgery on animals in which the corpus callosum (and sometimes the optic chiasm) is severed so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted

   Broaderbrain surgery

Questions about split-brain technique

What does split-brain technique mean?

split-brain technique means "brain surgery on animals in which the corpus callosum (and sometimes the optic chiasm) is severed so that communication between the cerebral hemispheres is interrupted".

Is split-brain technique a common word?

split-brain technique is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.