Joseph Bogen - Split Brain Research

Split Brain Research

Bogen was part of a research team at Caltech with Roger Sperry and H. G. Gordon which conducted the first split brain study. His early surgical interventions to control epilepsy laid the foundation for the development of modern ideas about the unique identities of the right and left brains. His work played a crucial role in the development of the split-brain experiments that won Caltech’s Roger Sperry the 1981 Nobel Prize in physiology.

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