Researched
Split-brain studies
After surgeons cut the link between a patient's brain halves in 1961, Sperry and Gazzaniga showed that each half can perceive and act without the other knowing.
Open in the interactive tree →The tests showed that speech runs mostly in the left hemisphere and spatial tasks more in the right; Roger Sperry shared the 1981 Nobel Prize. Later work found the halves cooperate far more than the popular left-brain, right-brain picture suggests.
Prerequisites
Unlocks
- ConsciousnessopenSplit-brain patients first showed how experience can divide inside one skull