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1. rogersperry.orgRoger Wolcott Sperry | Life and Works

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   A more tenacious researcher, a better designer of elegant experiments, and a more intellectually demanding thinker would be difficult to find in the history of psychology and science. His ideas have made a permanent impact on neuroscience, neuropsychology, psychology, philosophy, and society.

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   Roger Wolcott Sperry (August 20, 1913 – April 17, 1994) was an American neuropsychologist, neurobiologist, cognitive neuroscientist, and Nobel laureate who, together with David Hunter Hubel and Torsten Nils Wiesel, won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his work with split-brain research.

3. www.nobelprize.org › prizes › medicineRoger Wolcott Sperry - NobelPrize.org

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   Jul 23, 1997 · Sperry showed that if nerve connections were rearranged – for example, by redirecting to the other side of the animal the sensory nerves that innervate the left foot of a rat – inappropriate responses resulted that could not be unlearned.

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   Roger Wolcott Sperry was an American neurobiologist. He was a corecipient with David Hunter Hubel and Torsten Nils Wiesel of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1981 for their investigations of brain function, Sperry in particular for his study of functional specialization in the cerebral.

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5. www.nobelprize.org › prizes › medicineRoger W. Sperry – Facts - NobelPrize.org

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   Roger W. Sperry. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1981. Born: 20 August 1913, Hartford, CT, USA. Died: 17 April 1994, Pasadena, CA, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA.

6. rogersperry.orgPublications | Roger Wolcott Sperry

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   Sperry, R. W. (1941) Functional results of crossing nerves and transposing muscles in the fore and hind limbs of the rat. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Chicago.

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   Who is Roger Wolcott Sperry?

   • As with his earlier work, the discovery of the duality of consciousness revealed in the split-brain experiments opened whole new fields of brain research, and these are now being worked by a new generation of biologists, and, of course, philosophers. MLA style: Roger Wolcott Sperry. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Prize Outreach AB 2024.

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   How did Roger Wolcott Sperry contribute to neurobiology?

   • Roger Wolcott Sperry made titanic contributions to neurobiology [ 1 ]. He did so by challenging some of the existing scientific dogmas and making discoveries that revolutionised the fields of neural development and hemispheric specialisation [ 2 ], Fig. 1.

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   Who was Roger Sperry?

   • ROGER WOLCOTT SPERRY was born in Hartford, Connecticut on August 20, 1913. Sperry was imprinted on the mind-brain problem at a very tender age through a chance reading of William James, probably around the age of 10. For the next half century, his focus was unwavering and his connection to psychology central to his thinking and research.

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   Did Roger Sperry have a child?

   • He was married in 1949 and had a son and a daughter. Both human and animal brains have two halves with somewhat different functions. One way Roger Sperry studied these functions was by examining patients whose hemisphere-connecting nerves had been severed to alleviate serious epilepsy.

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8. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › pmc › articlesRoger W. Sperry (1913–1994) - PMC - National Center for ...

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   Jul 22, 2022 · Roger Wolcott Sperry made titanic contributions to neurobiology . He did so by challenging some of the existing scientific dogmas and making discoveries that revolutionised the fields of neural development and hemispheric specialisation , Fig. 1.