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In what year was Roger Wolcott Sperry born?

  • 1923

  • 1943

  • 1913

  • 1893

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Roger Wolcott Sperry was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1913. He was a neuropsychologist who is best known for his work on the split-brain experiment, which showed that the two hemispheres of the brain have different functions. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1981 for his work on split-brain research.
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