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  • Our own conviction that the answers on these language tests had to be coming from the right and not from the left half of the brain was based on lateralized testing procedures in which the speaking left hemisphere could be shown, by follow-up verbal questions, to have remained incognisant or quite unaware of the answers and performances being ascribed to the right hemisphere.

    Roger W. Sperry - Nobel Lecture 1981

  • So, many policies have come to exist with very little interconnectedness, and also with regulators being smugly incognisant of the parts of the policy matrix they are not directly answerable for.

    The Financial Express 2009

  • Mr. Oover said in a tone of quiet authority that compelled Greddon's ear "Duke, I hope I am not incognisant of the laws that govern the relations of guest and host.

    Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914

  • Mr. Oover said in a tone of quiet authority that compelled Greddon's ear "Duke, I hope I am not incognisant of the laws that govern the relations of guest and host.

    Zuleika Dobson 1911

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