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In terms of gross anatomy almost all animals are bilaterally symmetrical. Each animal can be divided into a left half and a right half, which are more or less identical except that they are mirror-images of each other. The central nervous system reflects this bilateral symmetry and the primate cerebral cortex has two ‘mirror-image’ hemispheres. One interesting line of enquiry is whether sensory systems are affected by the bilateral symmetry of the cortex, since information coded spatially appears to be laterally inverted on passing across the cerebral commissures from one hemisphere to the other.
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© 1979 I. Steele Russell, M. W. van Hof and G. Berlucchi
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Starr, B. (1979). Mirror-Image Transfer in Optic Chiasm Sectioned Monkeys. 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_28
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