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SPERRY, Roger Wolcott (1913 – 1994)

SPERRY, Roger Wolcott (1913 – 1994)

1913 – 1994

2 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1961 CE

#9648

Cerebral organization and behavior: The split brain behaves in many respects like two separate brains, providing new research possibilities.

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 t…

1963 CE

#9647

Chemoaffinity in the orderly growth of nerve fiber patterns and connections.

Sperry's chemoaffinity hypothesis, which states that neurons make connections with their targets based on interactions with specific molecular markers[1] and, therefore, that the initial wiring diagram of an organism …