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Neuroscience: Halving it all

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Douwe Draaisma enjoys the autobiography of Michael Gazzaniga, who has studied split brains for half a century.

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  1. Douwe Draaisma is professor of the history of psychology at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. His book Forgetting will be published in March.,

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