With one eye closed, how do both sides of the brain receive visual information?

Question

with one eye closed, how does both sides of the brain receive visual information of what you’re seeing?

I know at a high level that the two hemispheres are connected and exchange information. But what internal mechanism of of the brain achieves this?

In: Biology

Answer 1

First you have a misconception: Both sides of the brain get information from both eyes. The issue is that the sides of the *visual field* are split between halves of the brain.

The other part of the answer is that the two hemispheres communicate via the corpus callosum.