Hemisphere deconnnection and unity in conscious awareness
Sperry, R. W. (1968)
American Psychologist 23 (10), 723-733.
- Nominator's statement
- A version of Sperry's invited address to the 1967 meetings of the American Psychological Association in which he reports his research on so-called split brain subjects, both animal and human, whose cerebral commissures have been sectioned. This research revealed that right-handed human subjects of such surgery are unconsciously aware of perceptions and other high level mental processes in their right hemispheres, thus suggesting that they possess, and perhaps possessed all along, two minds in their single body. For this work, and his earlier work on motor nerve regeneration in rats and monkeys, eye rotation in newts and fish, etc, he received the Nobel prize in physiology and medicine in 1981.
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