Using both sides of your brain: the case for rapid interhemispheric switching.

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Department of Biology, Institute for Neurological Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.

Published: October 2008


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Individual brain hemispheres are often specialized for specific aspects of a behavior. How both sides of the brain coordinate their output to produce a perfectly seamless behavior is not known. Songbirds appear to achieve this by rapidly switching back and forth between hemispheres.

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