Roger Sperry being awarded The Nobel Prize in 1981.He received the prize for his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres. With the help of so called “split brain” patients, he carried out experiments and for the first time in history, knowledge about the left and right hemispheres was revealed.
ROGER WALCOTT SPERRY
WHAT DOES SPLIT BRAIN MEAN?
In the 1960s, there was no cure for people who suffered from a special kind of epilepsy, but/rather than cutting off the connection, corpus callosum, between the two hemispheres.
WHAT DOES SPLIT BRAIN MEAN