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Letter: Split personality

Published 16 July 2014

From Eric Kvaalen

You report on a woman becoming unconscious when electrodes in her brain stimulated “the claustrum”, suggesting this area of the brain could be the seat of consciousness (5 July, p 10)

However, we have a claustrum on each side of the brain. What would happen if her other claustrum were zapped? And can there be two seats of consciousness in one person?
Les Essarts-le-Roi, France

Issue no. 2978 published 19 July 2014

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