Training box · Welcome to the Nobel Prize Laureate Collection

ID-nummer

2001.016.001

Titel

Training box

Objektkategori

Vetenskapliga instrument, material & modeller

Publik beskrivning

Using this box, Sperry studied apes whose hemisphere-connecting nerves had been cut.

In the monkey’s brain, the right and left visual fields are connected to the opposite hemisphere. Using filters in front of the monkey's eyes, the right or left field of vision could be shielded. In this way, an image projected on a screen in front of the monkey could be shown to only one hemisphere of the brain. This made it possible to train and study the two brain hemispheres separately. The studies provided a basis for studying the different functions of the two brain hemispheres in humans.

Roger Sperrys widow, Norma Sperry, presented the training box to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2001.

Location

Permanent exhibition

Pristagare

Roger W. Sperry

Provenance

123 Nobel Museum Temporary