Decoding Brain Lateralization The Pioneering Studies of Sperry, Myers, and Gazzaniga

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 ... Ronald Myers (1956), then a graduate student working with Roger Speny at the ... Michael Gazzaniga who had arrived in September as a beginning graduate. The function of this "great cerebral commissure," which represents the major set of connections between the two cerebral hemispheres, had remained a mystery to ... His split-brain experiments in humans provided evidence that the left and right hemispheres can have different perceptions and forms of consciousness. Sperry ... Michael Gazzaniga and Roger Sperry ... When Sperry and Ronald Myers discovered that each hemisphere functioned independently as if it were ... Sperry was honored with the Nobel Prize in 1981 for his pioneering work in the field, while Gazzaniga continues to investigate all of the ... A classic experiment on cat with split brains was conducted by Ronald Myers and Roger Sperry in 1953. ... Gazzaniga, Bogen, Sperry (1962). Roger Sperry, Trustee professor emeritus of psychobiology at the ... ate student, Michael Gazzaniga, were able to apply systematic psychological ... ... Roger Sperry and Ronald Meyers in the early 1960s (3). Meyers and Sperry showed that when the cat had ... had instructed him to do. The scientist, otherwise ... The initial investigations of hemispheric communication and asymmetry in humans were carried out by Michael Gazzaniga, working in the laboratory of Roger Sperry ...