Question

Do you think how the world is viewed in the way of Sperry's split brain research can be beneficial in any way?

Answer 1

Sperry experimented with cats, monkeys and humans. His experiments started with split-brain cats. He closed one of their eyes and presented them with two different blocks, one of which had food under it. Then he changed the eyelid to the second eye of the cat and put the food under the second block. The cat memorized these events separately and could not distinguish between the block with both eyes open. Then Sperry performed a similar experiment in monkeys, but allowed them to use both eyes at the same time, which was possible due to special projectors and light filters. The split-brain monkeys housed two mutually exclusive scenarios at the same time a normal monkey memorized one. Sperry concluded that with a separate corpus callosum the hemispheres can not communicate and each one functions as the only brain. Sperry proceeded to human volunteers who had a cut corpus callosum. He showed a word to one of his eyes and found out that divided people of the brain could only remember the word they saw with their right eye. Then the Sperry participants showed two different objects, only to their left eye and only to their right eye and then asked them to draw what they saw. All participants wrote what they saw with their left eye and described what they saw with their right eye. Sperry concluded that the brain's left hemisphere could recognize and analyze speech while the right hemisphere could not. Perhaps the most obvious answer is that brain psychology is not so easy. For someone like myself, who is a right hand and showing stronger right hemisphere functions, this seems more true. Think about it. During everyday life, both halves get almost the same outlook on the world. Life continues as if nothing is different from the perception. Each half shares the same knowledge base and reactive inclinations. Thus, your consciousness is controlled by both hemispheres, which are likely to overwhelm functions, and simply without having your corpus callosum separated you can never experience two "yous". And while the research on the subject is developing, the little man sitting in your brain will directly delight your thoughts and actions to the required half-ball. Forty and five years ago, Roger Sperry, Joseph The book and I started on what is now called the modern split brain studies. These experiments opened new boundaries in brain research and gave rise to much of what we know about hemisphere specialization and integration. The latest development In split-brain research is based foundation laid by these early studies. Split-brain method, alone and in connection with neuroimaging has gave insight into the remarkable regional specificity of corpus callosum as well as in the integrative role of callosum in the perception of causality and in ours perception of an integrated sense of self.