Deciphering the Brain's Hemispheres Sperry, Myers, and Gazzaniga's Groundbreaking Findings

Abstract. How many people do you know would question whether or not they had made a difference in the history of psychology, when they were appointed the ... Question: When psychologists Roger Sperry, Ronald Myers, and Michael Gazzaniga divided the brains of cats and monkeys,. Gazzaniga, 71, now a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is best known for a dazzling series of studies that ... make up my own mind , and do it the way any neuroscientist would : find out as much as I reasonably could about the issue and go with what seemed most ... How does. Page 9. Michael S. Gazzaniga. 105 the left hemisphere control the left arm and hand following split-brain sur- gery? After all, hemisphere ... Similarly, Levy, Trevarthen, and Sperry (1972) presented split-brain patients with chimeric or composite faces, that is, one half-face in each ... Vogel and Bogen knew that psychologists Roger Sperry, Ronald Myers, and. Michael Gazzaniga had divided the brains of cats and monkeys in this manner, with no ... Roger Wolcott Sperry made titanic contributions to neurobiology [1]. He did so by challenging some of the existing scientific dogmas and making discoveries. ... Roger Sperry are actually distributed throughout the cortex. Levy's (1983) ... Results from studies done by Michael Gazzaniga (1992) and Stephen Kosslyn. Roger Sperry was an influential neuroscientist who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Through experiments involving nerve transplants in ...