The Split-Brain Phenomenon Unveiled by Sperry, Myers, and Gazzaniga

His split-brain experiments in humans provided evidence that the left and right hemispheres can have different perceptions and forms of consciousness. Sperry ... Similar tests conducted by Michael S. Gazzaniga (see Sperry, 1964) on human patients whose hemispheres had been surgically separated in an ... 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 and Roger Sperry, were very curious about these pathways of communication between the two hemispheres. In the 1950's, they wanted to understand ... Gazzaniga: The split brain phenomenon suggests that there can be two separated minds, if you will, inside of a skull. The cooperation is on the ... Ronald Myers and Roger Sperry had demonstrated in the 1950s that severing the corpus callosum, the large band of fibers that connects the cerebral hemi ... him at the above address. 1. Ronald E. Myers and Roger W. Sperry ... 1328, 1329. 3. Michael S. Gazzaniga, "The Split Brain in. Man," Scientific American ... The two functioning hemispheres were each doing their own job; they just couldn't communicate with each other. But in a series of ingenious studies, Sperry and ... Similarly, Levy, Trevarthen, and Sperry (1972) presented split-brain patients with chimeric or composite faces, that is, one half-face in each ... 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 ...