This was in the 05 STAV, i dont agree with the answer
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Question 1
A patient who had undergone a split-brain operation is presented with a picture of a
yacht to his left visual field and a picture of a train to his right visual field, and is
asked to verbally report on what he sees.
i. What is he likely to report concerning his visual experience?
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Question 1
i. One mark
Patient will report seeing the train; he will not report seeing the yacht.
ii Two marks Give one mark for each of the following:
• The
image of the train ends up in the left hemisphere. This hemisphere has the language centres and he is able to give the object a name − a train.
• The image of the yacht ends up in the right hemisphere. The visual cortex can process the image correctly but because the corpus callosum is cut, the patient cannot assess language to give it a name.
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i mean if its cut how is the image of a train going to be reported verbally- the train was on the right and the brain is split; hence it is unable to verbally reported which is a left hemisphere function.
Am i wrong or is it STAV??