Roger Wolcott Sperry
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Roger Wolcott Sperry's Degrees
- PhD Psychology University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Roger Wolcott Sperry 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. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Sperry as the 44th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.
Roger Wolcott Sperry's Published Works
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- CHEMOAFFINITY IN THE ORDERLY GROWTH OF NERVE FIBER PATTERNS AND CONNECTIONS. (1963) (1838)
- Neural basis of the spontaneous optokinetic response produced by visual inversion. (1950) (1664)
- Hemisphere deconnection and unity in conscious awareness. (1968) (763)
- Lateral specialization in the surgically separated hemispheres. (1974) (574)
- Reception of bilateral chimeric figures following hemispheric deconnexion. (1972) (557)
- Interhemispheric relationships: the neocortical commissures; syndromes of hemisphere disconnection (1969) (555)
- Preferential selection of central pathways by regenerating optic fibers. (1963) (502)
- Language after section of the cerebral commissures. (1967) (461)
- Cerebral Organization and Behavior: The split brain behaves in many respects like two separate brains, providing new research possibilities. (1961) (447)
- A modified concept of consciousness. (1969) (439)
- Some effects of disconnecting the cerebral hemispheres. (1982) (397)
- Lateralized Suppression of Dichotically Presented Digits after Commissural Section in Man (1968) (392)
- OPTIC NERVE REGENERATION WITH RETURN OF VISION IN ANURANS (1944) (369)
- Observations on visual perception after disconnexion of the cerebral hemispheres in man. (1965) (369)
- Some functional effects of sectioning the cerebral commissures in man* (1962) (333)
- Self recognition and social awareness in the deconnected minor hemisphere (1979) (286)
- Visuomotor coordination in the newt (triturus viridescens) after regeneration of the optic nerve (1943) (285)
- Mind-brain interaction: Mentalism, yes; dualism, no (1980) (264)
- The Problem of Central Nervous Reorganization After Nerve Regeneration and Muscle Transposition (1945) (218)
- Dyspraxia following division of the cerebral commissures. (1967) (212)
- Mental unity following surgical disconnection of the cerebral hemispheres. (1966) (212)
- RESTORATION OF VISION AFTER CROSSING OF OPTIC NERVES AND AFTER CONTRALATERAL TRANSPLANTATION OF EYE (1945) (209)
- Consciousness, personal identity and the divided brain (1984) (191)
- Some long-term motor effects of cerebral commissurotomy in man (1977) (190)
- Memory impairment after commissurotomy in man. (1974) (184)
- Absence of deconnexion syndrome in two patients with partial section of the neocommissures. (1971) (167)
- Effect of 180 degree rotation of the retinal field on visuomotor coordination (1943) (164)
- The great cerebral commissure (1964) (164)
- Hemisphere lateralization for cognitive processing of geometry (1977) (163)
- Perceptual unity of the ambient visual field in human commissurotomy patients. (1973) (160)
- The impact and promise of the cognitive revolution. (1993) (152)
- CHAPTER SIX – Lateral Specialization of Cerebral Function in the Surgically Separated Hemispheres1 (1973) (151)
- Hemispheric Specialization in Nonverbal Communication (1983) (139)
- Patterning of Central Synapses in Regeneration of the Optic Nerve in Teleosts (1948) (135)
- Psychology's mentalist paradigm and the religion/science tension. (1988) (126)
- Visual pattern perception following sub-pial slicing and tantalum wire implantations in the visual cortex. (1955) (123)
- THE GREAT CEREBRAL COMMISSURE. (1964) (116)
- Science and moral priority: Merging mind, brain, and human values (1983) (109)
- The effect of crossing nerves to antagonistic muscles in the hind limb of the rat (1941) (107)
- Interhemispheric communication through the corpus callosum: mnemonic carry-over between the hemispheres. (1958) (104)
- Performance on the Raven's Colored Progressive Matrices Test by Subjects with Cerebral Commissurotomy (1973) (104)
- Laterality effects in somesthesis following cerebral commissurotomy in man (1963) (99)
- Brain Bisection and Mechanisms of Consciousness (1965) (99)
- Mind‐brain interaction. Mentalism, yes; dualism, no (1981) (98)
- Relearning tests for interocular transfer following division of optic chiasma and corpus callosum in cats. (1956) (93)
- Science And Moral Priority (1983) (91)
- Mental Phenomena as Causal Determinants in Brain Functions (1975) (90)
- Expressive language in the surgically separated minor hemisphere. (1971) (89)
- An objective approach to subjective experience: Further explanation of a hypothesis. (1970) (88)
- Lateralization of olfactory perception in the surgically separated hemispheres of man (1969) (85)
- In defense of mentalism and emergent interaction (1991) (85)
- Effect of crossing nerves to antagonistic limb muscles in the monkey. (1947) (82)
- Perception in the absence of the neocortical commissures. (1970) (80)
- Neural mechanisms in visual guidance of limb movement. (1962) (80)
- Pattern perception following insertion of mica plates into visual cortex. (1955) (74)
- Some effects of disconnecting the cerebral hemispheres (1982) (70)
- Simultaneous double discrimination response following brain bisection (1966) (67)
- Regulative factors in the orderly growth of neural circuits. (1951) (66)
- Mind, Brain, and Humanist Values (1966) (66)
- Tests for neuroplasticity in the anuran retinotectal system. (1973) (65)
- Interhemispheric interaction during simultaneous bilateral presentation of letters or digits in commissurotomized patients. (1973) (63)
- Plasticity of Neural Maturation (1968) (62)
- Left-Brain, Right-Brain. (1975) (62)
- Macro- versus Micro-Determinism (1986) (61)
- Bridging science and values: A unifying view of mind and brain. (1977) (61)
- Selectivity in regeneration of the oculomotor nerve in the cichlid fish, Astronotus ocellatus. (1965) (60)
- Intermanual somesthetic transfer in split-brain Rhesus monkeys. (1960) (60)
- Lateralized division of attention in the commissurotomized and intact brain (1980) (60)
- Interhemispheric Communication After Section of the Forebrain Commissures (1985) (58)
- Hemispheric deconnection syndrome with cerebral birth injury in the dominant arm area. (1971) (58)
- Retinotectal Specificity: Chemoaffinity Theory (1976) (57)
- Function of corpus callosum in contralateral transfer of somesthetic discrimination in cats. (1957) (57)
- Split-Brain Approach to Learning Problems (1967) (52)
- Problems outstanding in the evolution of brain function (James Arthur lecture on the evolution of the human brain, no. 33, 1964). (1964) (52)
- Bimanual coordination in monkeys. (1968) (52)
- Cerebral regulation of motor coordination in monkeys following multiple transection of sensorimotor cortex. (1947) (52)
- Action Current Study in Movement Coordination (1939) (51)
- Left hemisphere involvement in left spatial neglect from right-sided lesions. (1984) (50)
- Capacity for Holding Sustained Attention Following Commissurotomy (1979) (49)
- Preservation of high-order function in isolated somatic cortex in callosum-sectioned cat. (1959) (47)
- Left and Right Intelligence: Case Studies of Raven's Progressive Matrices Following Brain Bisection and Hemidecortication (1981) (47)
- Interocular Transfer of Visual Discrimination Habits in a Teleost Fish (1949) (46)
- Transplantation of motor nerves and muscles in the forelimb of the rat (1942) (44)
- The Eye and the Brain (1956) (38)
- Color discrimination after optic nerve regeneration in the fish Astronotus ocellatus (1963) (38)
- Science and the Problem of Values (1974) (38)
- Orderly patterning of synaptic associations in regeneration of intracentral fiber tracts mediating visuomotor coordination (1948) (38)
- Forebrain Commissurotomy and Conscious Awareness (1977) (37)
- On the neural basis of the conditioned response (1955) (35)
- SEARCH FOR BELIEFS TO LIVE BY CONSISTENT WITH SCIENCE (1991) (33)
- Perceptual Capacity of the Isolated Visual Cortex in the Cat (1960) (33)
- The functional results of muscle transposition in the hind limb of the rat (1940) (30)
- Interhemispheric rivalry during simultaneous bilateral task presentation in commissurotomized patients. (1974) (30)
- CENTRIPETAL REGENERATION OF THE 8TH CRANIAL NERVE ROOT WITH SYSTEMATIC RESTORATION OF VESTIBULAR REFLEXES (1945) (30)
- The Riddle of Consciousness and the Changing Scientific WorldView (1995) (28)
- Formation within sensory nucleus V of synaptic associations mediating cutaneous localization (1949) (27)
- Visuo-Motor Integration in Split-Brain Cats (1959) (27)
- Absence of commissurotomy symptoms with agenesis of the corpus callosum. (1968) (27)
- The growth of nerve circuits. (1959) (26)
- Nature of functional recovery following regeneration of the oculomotor nerve in amphibians (1947) (24)
- Some effects of disconnecting the cerebral heispheres. Nobel Lecture, 8 December 1981. (1982) (24)
- The future of psychology. (1995) (22)
- Reply to Professor Puccetti (1977) (22)
- Intermanual stereognostic size discrimination in split-brain monkeys. (1966) (21)
- A simple technique for lateralizing visual input that allows prolonged viewing (1982) (21)
- CHANGED CONCEPTS OF BRAIN AND CONSCIOUSNESS: SOME VALUE IMPLICATIONS (1985) (20)
- Myotypic specificity in teleost motoneurons (1950) (20)
- Turnabout on consciousness: a mentalist view (1992) (20)
- Functional results of crossing sensory nerves in the rat (1943) (19)
- Delayed-response performance following optic tract section, unilateral frontal lesion, and commissurotomy. (1963) (16)
- Interhemispheric comparison of color in split-brain monkeys. (1968) (16)
- OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION AFTER DESTRUCTION OF THE ANTERIOR THALAMIC NUCLEI (1943) (16)
- Amnesic effects of lithium chloride in chicks. (1973) (15)
- Functional recovery following alterations in nerve‐muscle connections of fishes (1956) (15)
- Messages from the Laboratory (1975) (15)
- Effects of microinjection of 2‐chloro‐11 (2‐dimethylaminoethoxy)‐dibenzo[b,f]‐thiepine (zotepine), thioridazine and haloperidol into the striatum and nucleus accumbens on stereotypic behaviour and motor activity (1981) (14)
- A unifying approach to mind and brain: ten year perspective. (1976) (13)
- Mentalist monism: consciousness as a causal emergent of brain processes (1978) (10)
- A powerful paradigm made stronger (1998) (9)
- Reimplantation of Eyes in Fishes (Bathygobius soporator) with Recovery of Vision.∗ (1949) (9)
- PARADIGMS OF BELIEF, THEORY AND METATHEORY (1992) (9)
- Central integration of visual half-fields in split-brain monkeys. (1969) (8)
- Consciousness and the Cognitive Revolution: A True Worldview Paradigm Shift (1994) (8)
- Effects of thioridazine on apomorphine-elicited stereotypic behavior and motor activity (1980) (7)
- Changing priorities. (1981) (7)
- Science, Values, and Survival (1986) (6)
- Test for left-right chemospecificity in frog cutaneous nerves. (1975) (5)
- Myotypic Respecification of Regenerated Nerve-fibres in Cichlid Fishes (1957) (5)
- Crossed temperature discrimination following section of forebrain neocortical commissures. (1970) (5)
- Brain Mechanisms in Behavior (1957) (4)
- The Role of Scientific Results in Theories of Mind and Brain: A Conversation among Philosophers and Scientists (1976) (4)
- Experiments on perceptual integration in animals. (1956) (4)
- The Problem of Central Nervous Reorganization After Nerve Regeneration and Muscle Transposition (1976) (3)
- Horizontal Intracortical Organization in the Cerebral Control of Limb Movement.∗ (1945) (3)
- Contributions of the Right Cerebral Hemisphere in Perceiving Paralinguistic Cues of Emotion (1984) (3)
- Ontogenic development and maintenance of compensatory eye movements in complete absence of the optic nerve. (1946) (3)
- In Search of Psyche (1992) (3)
- BRIDGING SCIENCE AND VALUES: A UNIFYING VIEW OF MIND AND BRAIN (1979) (2)
- Groundbreaking work that began more than a quarter of a century ago has led to ongoing insights about brain organization and consciousness (1999) (1)
- Psychobiology and Vice Versa (1968) (0)
- Corpus Callosum Prefrontal Cortex Thalamus Cerebellum Septum (2002) (0)
- Further Discussion of Emergent Evolution (1992) (0)
- Book Review:The Formation of Nerve Connections. R. M. Gaze (1971) (0)
- A Brain of two Halves (1996) (0)
- Distinguished Scientific Contribution Awards for 1977 (1973) (0)
- Concepts re a Concept. (1958) (0)
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