Unraveling the Divided Brain The Nobel-Winning Research of Sperry and Co.

... Michael. Albert-Puleo. Southampton. NJ. Liz. Alcorn. Lincoln. NE. Marina. Alescekevich. Napoli. Dot. Alexander. San Francisco. CA. Joe. Alexander. Perry. KS. Roger Sperry was an influential neuroscientist who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Through experiments involving nerve transplants in ... '' It was not until the systematic experiments carried. out on commissurotomized cats and monkeys by. Ronald Myers and Roger Sperry that the ... 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 ... Similar tests conducted by Michael S. Gazzaniga (see Sperry, 1964) on human patients whose hemispheres had been surgically separated in an ... Sperry was honored with the Nobel Prize in 1981 for his pioneering work in the field, while Gazzaniga continues to investigate all of the ... The initial investigations of hemispheric communication and asymmetry in humans were carried out by Michael Gazzaniga, working in the laboratory of Roger Sperry ... Question: When psychologists Roger Sperry, Ronald Myers, and Michael Gazzaniga divided the brains of cats and monkeys,. The young student, Ronald Myers (now ... He seemed per- fectly normal. Meanwhile, Sperry had in- terested a graduate student,. Michael Gazzaniga, in per-. 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 ...