Roger Wolcott Sperry
Roger Wolcott Sperry was an American neuropsychologist, neurobiologist, cognitive neuroscientist, and Nobel laureate who, together with David H. Hubel and Torsten Nils Wiesel, won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work with split-brain research. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Sperry as the 44th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.
Background
- Born in
- Hartford
- Educated at
- Hall High SchoolUniversity of ChicagoOberlin College
- Awards
- 🏆 William James Fellow Award🏆 APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology🏆 Karl Spencer Lashley Award🏆 Howard Crosby Warren Medal🏆 APA Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Paul A. Weiss
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Michael S. Gazzaniga
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"The objective psychologist, hoping to get at the physiological side of behavior, is apt to plunge immediately into neurology trying to correlate brain activity with modes of experience ... The result …"
"The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere."
"Earlier contentions that the right hemisphere is not even conscious largely gave way by the mid seventies to an intermediate position conceding that the mute hemisphere may be conscious at some lower …"
"One of the more important things to come out of the split-brain work, as an indirect spin-off, is a revised concept of the nature of consciousness and its fundamental relation to brain processing. The…"
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Timeline
1913
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Birth1994
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