Roger W. Sperry

Research.com Recognitions

• 1993 - APA Award for Lifetime Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association.
• 1989 - US President's National Medal of Science "For his work on neurospecificity which showed how the intricate brain networks for behavior are effected through a system of chemical coding of individual cells, which has made fundamental contributions to the understanding of human nature.", Presented to Dr. Sperry's son, Mr. Glen Sperry, by President Bush at a White House Ceremony on October 18, 1989.
• 1989 - William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA)
• 1981 - Nobel Prize for his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres
• 1979 - Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, Lasker Foundation
• 1979 - Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience
• 1976 - Karl Spencer Lashley Award, The American Philosophical Society
• 1971 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
• 1960 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 1960 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Best Publications

• Chemoaffinity in the Orderly Growth of Nerve Fiber Patterns and Connections

  R. W. Sperry

  2641
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• Neural basis of the spontaneous optokinetic response produced by visual inversion.

  R. W. Sperry

  2466
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• Interhemispheric relationships: the neocortical commissures; syndromes of hemisphere disconnection

  Roger W. Sperry;Michael S. Gazzaniga;Joseph E. Bogen

  1082
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• Hemisphere deconnection and unity in conscious awareness.

  Roger W. Sperry

  1011
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• LANGUAGE AFTER SECTION OF THE CEREBRAL COMMISSURES

  M. S. Gazzaniga;R. W. Sperry

  821
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• Reception of bilateral chimeric figures following hemispheric deconnexion.

  Jerre Levy;Colwyn Trevarthen;R. W. Sperry

  808
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• Preferential selection of central pathways by regenerating optic fibers.

  Domenica G. Attardi;R.W. Sperry

  710
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• Cerebral Organization and Behavior

  R. W. Sperry

  709
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• Lateral specialization in the surgically separated hemispheres.

  R. Sperry

  679
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• Some functional effects of sectioning the cerebral commissures in man.

  M. S. Gazzaniga;J. E. Bogen;R. W. Sperry

  650
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• A MODIFIED CONCEPT OF CONSCIOUSNESS

  Roger W. Sperry

  586
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• Some effects of disconnecting the cerebral hemispheres

  Roger Sperry

  580
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• Lateralized Suppression of Dichotically Presented Digits after Commissural Section in Man

  Brenda Milner;L. Taylor;R. W. Sperry

  540
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• OPTIC NERVE REGENERATION WITH RETURN OF VISION IN ANURANS

  R. W. Sperry

  523
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• Observations on visual perception after disconnexion of the cerebral hemispheres in man.

  M. S. Gazzaniga;J. E. Bogen;R. W. Sperry

  458
  Citations

• [Neurology and the mind-brain problem].

  Roger W Sperry

  429
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• Self recognition and social awareness in the deconnected minor hemisphere.

  Roger W. Sperry;Eran Zaidel;Dahlia W. Zaidel

  389
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• Visuomotor coordination in the newt (triturus viridescens) after regeneration of the optic nerve

  R. W. Sperry

  368
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• THE GREAT CEREBRAL COMMISSURE.

  R. W. Sperry

  358
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• Mind‐brain interaction. Mentalism, yes; dualism, no

  R. W. Sperry

  343
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