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Note though that this is n=2, and I'd assume the two subjects were not sampled even remotely randomly from the set of split-brain patients...


Well, no, but with things like this you sort of tend to assume that the basic structure of everyone's brain is pretty much the same, so it only takes n=1 to stuff that you can pretty safely extrapolate to everyone.

It would be a different matter if we expected an array of different brain mechanisms at the information-pathway level. Compare to how we do probably expect variation at, like, reasoning and emotional levels, maybe.




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