The Brain's Hemispheres A Tale of Two Worlds Unraveled by Sperry, Myers, and Gazzaniga

It was in this context that the original experiments on the split-brain were carried out in the cat by Ronald Myers and Roger Sperry at the University of. Roger Sperry, Trustee professor emeritus of psychobiology at the ... ate student, Michael Gazzaniga, were able to apply systematic psychological ... The initial investigations of hemispheric communication and asymmetry in humans were carried out by Michael Gazzaniga, working in the laboratory of Roger Sperry ... and we were probably smart to do so. Yet we sometimes apply the ... Roger Sperry shared the Nobel Prize in 1981 for his landmark studies of ... Vogel and Bogen knew that psychologists Roger Sperry, Ronald Myers, and Michael Gazzaniga had divided cats' and monkeys' brains in this manner, with no serious ... 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 ... New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, x + 274pp. Clothbound, $28.00. Paperback, $19.00. Michael S. Gazzaniga is a Professor of Psychology at the University of ... transfer still occurred to the second eye (Myers and Sperry, 1958). In ... (Sperry, Gazzaniga and Bogen, 1969). However there is some evidence that the ... This research contributed to the development of a new field of cognitive neuroscience and to the cognitive revolution in psychology in the 1960s. Sperry also ... Michael Gazzaniga and Roger Sperry ... When Sperry and Ronald Myers discovered that each hemisphere functioned independently as if it were ...