Plenty of evidence indicates that the recognition of familiar faces depends largely on structures on the right side of the brain’s outer layer, or cortex. However, the brain appears to take a sharp left turn in fostering the ability to identify one’s own face.
That, at least, is the implication of experiments conducted with a so-called split-brain patient.
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