Roger Wolcott Sperry

Roger W. Sperry (August 20th 1913 - April 17th 1994) is a neurophysiologist made famous for his work on connections between the cerebral hemispheres, which was worth a to him Nobel Prize of medicine in 1981.

It describes in particular the singular role of each cerebral Hémisphère in the perception of the language and space, in the recognition of the faces, the value judgments, the reasoning or affectivity. It goes until formulating the assumption that each hemisphere would have clean functions, even of a clean conscience.

If its work is impossible to circumvent in Psychobiologie, the implication which it involves in the bonds between the physique and the psychic one make that its philosophical positions shocked.

One can quote among the concepts of bases of his work:

  • the extreme physiological plasticity of the brain
  • the generating brain of emergence
  • the conscience, like total entity, operational and functional
  • the conscience models the brain and not the opposite

Related articles

External bonds

  • biography
  • Autobiography
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain

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