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A basic assumption in the studies of cerebral disconnection is that interocular transfer is perfect in the intact animal. By this we mean that when a normal animal is trained monocularly on a visual discrimination and when the untrained eye is tested on the same task it will show perfect retention of the learned information. Failure of interocular transfer in the split-brain animal is usually taken as evidence of disruption of commissural integration of cerebral unity.
‘It is an excellent scientific maxim not to appeal to central processes as long as there remains the possibility of explaining the given phenomenon in peripheral terms.’ (Hunter, 1930.)
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Russell, I.S., Bookman, J.F., Mohn, G. (1979). Interocular Transfer of Visual Learning in the Rat. In: Russell, I.S., van Hof, M.W., Berlucchi, G. (eds) Structure and Function of Cerebral Commissures. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03645-5_13
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