The Pioneers of Split-Brain Research Sperry, Myers, and Gazzaniga's Legacy

Michael Gazzaniga and Roger Sperry ... When Sperry and Ronald Myers discovered that each hemisphere functioned independently as if it were ... Gazzaniga and Sperry did not publish together after 1968. The only clue to the schism is his remark that Sperry had a habit of denigrating ... Ronald Myers (1956), then a graduate student working with Roger Speny at the ... Michael Gazzaniga who had arrived in September as a beginning graduate. Roger Sperry, Ronald Myers, and Michael Gazzaniga had divided the brains of cats and monkeys in this manner, with no serious ill effects. Gazzaniga is the director of the Sage Center for the Study of the Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received a PhD from the California ... RoGER Sperry, co-winner of the 1981. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ... of laboratory cubicles with Ronald Myers, who had just got his PhD under ... Similarly, Levy, Trevarthen, and Sperry (1972) presented split-brain patients with chimeric or composite faces, that is, one half-face in each ... Princeton University Library's Special Collections does not charge any permission or use fees for the publication of images of materials from our collections, ... This is precisely what biological systems can do with ease. ... A classic experiment on cats with split brains was conducted by Ronald Myers and. Roger Sperry. Roger Sperry, a California Institute of Technology pro- fessor of ... Meanwhile, Sperry had in- terested a graduate student, Michael Gazzaniga, in ...