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	Roger Wolcott Sperry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sperry was born in West Hartford, Connecticut to Francis Bushnell and Florence Kraemer Sperry.
		Sperry attended Oberlin College where he received his bachelor's degree in English in 1935 and a master's degree in psychology in 1937.
		Sperry and his colleagues then tested these patients with tasks that were known to be dependent on specific hemispheres of the brain and demonstrated that the two halves of the brain may each contain consciousness.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roger_W._Sperry (422 words)

	Sperry Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sperry Corporation (1910-1986) was a major American equipment and electronics company whose existence spanned more than seven decades of the twentieth century.
		Sperry also was the creator of the Ball Turret Gun that was mounted under the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, made famous by the Memphis Belle.
		The takeover came about even after Sperry Rand used a "poison pill" in the form of a major share price hike to dissuade the hostile bid, as a result of which Burroughs had to borrow much more from the banks than was anticipated in order to complete the bid.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sperry_Corporation (735 words)

	BookRags: Roger W. Sperry Biography
		Roger W. Sperry, a major contributor to at least three scientific fields--developmental neurobiology, experimental psychobiology, and human split-brain studies--conducted pioneering research in the functions of the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
		Sperry was born on August 20, 1913, in Hartford, Connecticut, to Francis Bushnell Sperry, a banker, and Florence Kramer Sperry.
		Sperry's experiments disproved Weiss's research and became the basis of his doctoral dissertation, "Functional results of crossing nerves and transposing muscles in the fore and hind limbs of the rat." He received a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Chicago in 1941.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/roger-w-sperry-wap (1787 words)

	Roger Wolcott Sperry
		Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913-1994) was born in Hartford, Connecticut and grew up on a farm outside Hartford.
		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.
		Essentially, Sperry and his students showed that if the two hemispheres of the brain are separated by severing the corpus callosum (the large band of fibers that connects them), the transfer of information between the hemispheres ceases, and the coexistence in the same individual of two functionally different brains can be demonstrated.
	nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/medicine/articles/sperry (1240 words)

	The Roger W. Sperry Site
		Sperry was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1960 and later to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (1978).
		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.
		Sperry, Board of Trustees Professor of Psychobiology, Emeritus, at California Institute of Technology, died at the age of 80 on April 17, 1994 in Pasadena, California from complications arising from a neuromuscular degenerative disorder.
	www.rogersperry.info /obit-amps.html (1749 words)

	Roger W. Sperry - Nobel Lecture
		Sperry, R. W., Gazzaniga, M. and Bogen, J. Interhemispheric relationships: the neocortical commissures; syndromes of hemisphere disconnection.
		Saul R. and Sperry, R. Absence of commissurotomy symptoms with agenesis of the corpus callosum.
		Sperry, R. W., Zaidel, E. and Zaidel, D. Selfrecognition and social awareness in the deconnected minor hemisphere.
	nobelprize.org /medicine/laureates/1981/sperry-lecture.html (4626 words)

	Sperry Resources & Information - sperry
		Sperry Corporation was a major American equipment and electronics company whose existence karen sperry spanned more than seven decades of the twentieth century.
		Sperry also was the creator of the Ball Turret Gun that was mounted under sperry deck shoes the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, made discount sperry topsiders famous by the Memphis Belle.
		The takeover came about even after Sperry Rand used a "poison pill" in the form of a major share price roger sperry hike to dissuade the hostile bid, as a result of which Burroughs had to borrow much more from the banks than was anticipated in order to complete the bid.
	www.bizhisto.com /Biz-Retail-Companies-Se---Th/Sperry.html (676 words)

	The Published Works of Roger W. Sperry!
		Sperry, R. (1948) Orderly patterning of synaptic associations in regeneration of intracentral fiber tracts mediating visuomotor coordination.
		Sperry, R. Patterning of central synapses in regeneration of the optic nerve in teleosts.
		Sperry, R. (1949) Patterning of central synapses in regeneration of the optic nerve in teleosts.
	people.uncw.edu /puente/sperry/sperrypapers (4715 words)

	The Roger W. Sperry Site
		Roger W. Sperry, Nobel laureate and Board of Trustees Professor of Psychobiology, Emeritus, at Caltech, died early Sunday, April 17, 1994.
		Sperry's best-known research involved "split-brain" patients, people who had had the connection between their left and right brain hemispheres surgically cut.
		Sperry is survived by his wife of 45 years, Norma Deupree Sperry of Pasadena; his brother, Russell L. Sperry, of Bend, Oregon: his son, Glenn Tad Sperry, of Philadelphia; his daughter.
	www.rogersperry.info /obit.html (576 words)

	ROGER WOLCOTT SPERRY
		Roger Sperry was born in Hartford, Connecticut on 20 Aug 1913.
		Sperry’s scheme was to split the optic chiasm so the right eye goes to the right cerebral hemisphere and the left eye to the left hemisphere and also to cut the corpus callosum between the two hemispheres.
		Roger Sperry was a physicalist and most of his students are physicalists.
	www.its.caltech.edu /~jbogen/text/amerphil.html (3096 words)

	A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries: Roger Sperry
		Psychobiologist Roger Sperry discovered that human beings are of two minds.
		In the early 1960s, Sperry and colleagues, including Michael Gazzaniga, conducted extensive experiments on an epileptic patient who had had his corpus collosum, the "bridge" between the left and right hemispheres of the brain, split so that the connection was severed.
		Sperry's work helped chart a map of the brain and opened whole fields of psychological and philosophical questions.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bhsper.html (186 words)

	Oberlin College Archives \| Holdings \| Finding Guides \| RG 30/249 - Roger W. Sperry \| Inventory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sperry, R. (1948) Patterning of central synapses in regeneration of the optic nerve in teleosts.
		Sperry, R. and Clark, E. (1949) Interocular transfer of visual discrimination habits in a teleost fish.
		Sperry, R. and Levy, J. (1969) Hemispheric specialization as reflected in the syndrome of the neocortical commissures.
	www.oberlin.edu /archive/holdings/finding/RG30/SG249/inventory.html (4097 words)

	Amazon.com: Beyond a World Divided: Human Values in the Brain-Mind Science of Roger Sperry: Books: Erika Erdmann,David ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		During the last two decades of his life, Nobel laureate Roger W. Sperry – best known for his pioneering split-brain studies that highlighted the differing aptitudes of the two hemispheres of the human brain – turned his energies to this dilemma.
		Sperry is most famous for his groundbreaking split-brain studies in epileptics, which so galvanized the popular imagination in the 60s and 70s that Sperry's name practically became a household word and the split-brain view of consciousness became a permanent part of the popular culture.
		Sperry's idea falls in general under the concept of the cortical specialization of cognitive abilities and there is no doubt there is some truth to that idea.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0595160379?v=glance (1133 words)

	Brain Circuits and Functions of the Mind - Cambridge University Press
		Sperry's challenging and controversial theories are very much alive in contemporary brain science, cognitive psychology and the philosophy of mind.
		Curiosity about the most difficult questions, such as those concerning conscious awareness, memory and volition led Sperry from the study of the control of complex patterns in brain circuit growth to discovery of the split brain phenomenon, which illuminated how the two halves of the brain integrate their different functions.
		The chemoaffinity hypothesis: an appreciation of Roger W. Sperry's contributions to developmental biology R. Hunt and W. Cowan; 3.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521378745 (673 words)

	100 Eminent Psychologists
		Rogers attempted to change the world of psychotherapy when he boldly claimed that psychoanalytic, experimental, and behavioral therapists were preventing their clients from ever reaching self-realization and self-growth due to their authoritative analysis.
		Roger Brown was widely known for his studies of how a child learns language and how words designate things, as well as the author of influential textbooks on social and introductory psychology.
		Roger Sperry was born August 20, 1913, in Hartford, Connecticut.
	www.coe.uga.edu /chds/counselingpsych/echd9600projects/eminentpsychologists (7020 words)

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		R. Sperry, in works cited between 1952 and 1982, has proposed a solution to the mind-body problem that is both physical monist and interactionist.
		It is suggested, however, that objections to Sperry's conception have sometimes been based on a failure to grasp what he has been proposing.
		In the interests of clarifying and defending the monist interactionist position, 7 objections to it that have been raised in the literature are considered.
	psychology.ucdavis.edu /labs/Natsoulas/pubs/94.html (89 words)

	Sperry Review
		To Sperry (and to this reviewer), being in touch with the combined effects of our own thoughts, reasoning, feelings, beliefs, hopes, ideas, memories, and temperament gives us an expanded sense of alternatives and freedom much more personal and special than would be the case if our decisions were totally cut free of any causal influences.
		In the realm of values, Sperry draws a basic distinction between "cognitive" values, which result from our cognitive interaction with the environment and which vary widely from one society or culture to the next; and "noncognitive" values, which are based on our genetic, biological, and psychological characteristics.
		He thinks that the human race has sufficiently upset the "checks and balances of nature"--through pollution, killing off other species and large areas of vegetation, overpopulation, the devastation of war and the threat of nuclear holocaust--that the very survival of life on earth, or at least civilization as we know it, is in serious jeopardy.
	members.aol.com /REBissell/indexmm1.html (1476 words)

	Journal of Mind and Behavior
		Sperry has proposed a solution to the mind-body problem that is both physical monist and, surprisingly for many readers, interactionist.
		While rejecting both behaviorism and sociobiology, Sperry argues for a science of values built on his thesis of emergent mentalism, a thesis that itself has, Sperry believes, respectable scientific support.
		I examine Sperry's proposoal and argue, first, that his proposal enables him to overcome the fatal objections to reductionistic sociobiological and behavioral attempts to make ethics scientific and that eliminate a role for cognition in human behavior.
	www.umaine.edu /jmb/archives/volume8/8_1_1987winter.html (1809 words)

	UMD Library - Psychologists - Robert Walcott Sperry
		Sperry, R. Hemisperic disconnection and unity in conscious awareness.
		Sperry, R. An objective approach to subjective experience: further explanation of a hypothesis.
		In N. Sheehy, A. Chapman, and W. Conroy (Eds.), Biographical dictionary of psychology (pg.
	www.d.umn.edu /~meberhar/ref/psy/psychologists/sperry.htm (94 words)

	HUMAN BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE HOLDS THE KEY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The right side of our body is connected to the left side of our brain and vs. There was a man by the name of Roger W. Sperry who won a Nobel Piece Prize in 1981 for his Discoveries Concerning the Cerebral Hemispheres.
		Sperry believed we were of two minds, but perceived our selves as one.
		Sperry followed their progress and conducted research on the effects of this phenomena.
	www.delfthaus.com /RogerSperry.htm (514 words)

	Dorlands Medical Dictionary
		Swedish-born physician in United States; co-winner, with David H. Hubel and Roger W. Sperry, of the Nobel prize for medicine or physiology in 1981 for their research on information processing in the visual system.
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	Roger W. Sperry - Autobiography
		Birthplace and Family: Born August 20, 1913, in Hartford, Connecticut to Francis Bushnell and Florence Kraemer Sperry of Elmwood, a small suburb.
		Father was in banking; mother trained in business school and after dad's death, when I was 11 years old, she became assistant to the principal in the local high school.
		Roger W. Sperry died on April 17, 1994.
	nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1981/sperry-autobio.html (523 words)

	Cogprints - EPrints submitted by Zaidel, Dahlia W. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Zaidel, Dahlia W. and Esiri, Margaret and Beardsworth, Elizabeth (1998) Observations on the relationship between verbal explicit and implicit memory and neuronal density in the left and right hippocampus in temporal lobectomy patients.
		Chen, Audrey C. and German, Craig and Zaidel, Dahlia W. Brain asymmetry and facial attractiveness: Facial beauty is not simply in the eye of the beholder.
		Sperry, Roger W. and Zaidel, Eran and Zaidel, Dahlia W. Self recognition and social awareness in the deconnected minor hemisphere.
	cogprints.org /perl/user_eprints?userid=234 (444 words)

	BrainConnection.com - Roger Wolcott Sperry Profile - Part 4
		Some scientists saw the work of Sperry and others as supporting the notion that the brain operates almost entirely mechanically, and that consciousness, reasoning and free will have almost no effect.
		By comparing the interactions of normal and split brains, Sperry found what he considered science-based examples of ideas, not just chemical events, running the show.
		What this meant to Sperry was that free will, and responsibility, were no illusion.
	www.brainconnection.com /topics/?main=fa/sperry4 (318 words)

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		To subscribers to Humankind Advancing, the work and thought of Dr. Sperry is well known through quotations from it in every issue, but mainly through the Special Issue of January 1994, dedicated to him.
		The widely dispersed, unorganized, irregularly twitching heart cells are brought to their senses by chemoaffinity, a selective chemical attraction to one another (the discovery of which was Roger W. Sperry's first great contribution to neuroscience).
		It is the main theme of the present argument that we stand to benefit by an active attempt to bring into play the corrective influence of...more highly evolved rational values of the transcendent mind to supersede less evolved values which, along with those based in otherworldly beliefs, now dominate and currently are failing.
	humanists.net /humankindadvancing/6/5-3.htm (5074 words)

	Humankind Advancing, Vol.1, No.2 April 1990
		By evolutionary time standards, the fate of life on our planet has suddenly, and quite abruptly, come to rest on an entirely new form of security and control, based on the machinery of the human brain.
		Neuroscientist and Nobel Laureate R.W. Sperry, a pioneer in brain development, in split-brain work, and influential through his scientific, consciousness-dominated mind-brain theory, has increasingly become preoccupied with the need for a responsible global ethic.
		Throughout his life, Ralph W. Burhoe followed his calling to re-invigorate the Christian religion and to restore its power, not by attempts to return to its fundaments, but through adjusting it to the truths discovered by science and thus making it more credible.
	humankindadvancing.humanists.net /01/01-02.html (4474 words)

	Bicameral Mind
		In the 1960s Roger W Sperry discovered that the brain has at least two very different " thinking modes".
		Brains are made up of two hemispheres connected by the "corpus callosum".
		A lot of the challenge in doing this successfully lies in getting the left brain to relax enough to give the right brain space to work.
	www.members.aol.com /perryjduke/web/bicameral.htm (371 words)

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		Professor Roger W. Sperry is honored for his studies on the functional differentiation of the right and left hemispheres of the brain.
		Since 1954, Professor at the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Sperry is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, The Royal Society and others.
		He received honorary doctorates from Cambridge University (1972) and from the University of Chicago (1976), and was elected California Scientist of the Year in 1972.
	www.wolffund.org.il /full.asp?id=85 (325 words)

	Review: Sperry sets his sites on the brain - brain - 27 October 1990 - New Scientist
		However, when the prize could equally have been given for discoveries in another completely different area, this indicates that one is dealing with an exceptional scientist.
		Such an individual is Roger Sperry who, over the past 50 years, has proved that he is one of the leading neuroscientists of the century.
		His contributions in the fields of developmental neurobiology, the cognitive psychology of hemispheric specialisation and the philosophy of mind, have been major influences on generations of students and researchers in the fields of neuroscience and psychology.
	www.newscientist.com /channel/being-human/brain/mg12817405.200 (290 words)

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