Unveiling the Enigma of the Split Brain The Work of Sperry, Myers, and Gazzaniga

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, Trustee professor emeritus of psychobiology at the ... ate student, Michael Gazzaniga, were able to apply systematic psychological ... Aspaturian: What did you do? Benzer: I wrote a note, saying, “I'd love ... I think that research had been started by an earlier student—Ron Myers. And ... 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 ... 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 ... The function of this "great cerebral commissure," which represents the major set of connections between the two cerebral hemispheres, had remained a mystery to ... gence ± the processing and storage of information. for mind work. Sperry had a deep conviction about. and respect for the vitality and ... As an undergraduate at Dartmouth College in Hanover,. New Hampshire, Michael Gazzaniga had learned of split- brain research on cats and monkeys, carried out by ... 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 ... The initial investigations of hemispheric communication and asymmetry in humans were carried out by Michael Gazzaniga, working in the laboratory of Roger Sperry ...