What was the main discovery Sperry and his colleagues made in 1981?
A new planet
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The workings of the divided brain
Answer
The workings of the divided brain was the main discovery Sperry and his colleagues made in 1981. Sperry and his colleagues conducted a series of experiments on split-brain patients, who had had their corpus callosum severed to treat epilepsy. Sperry and his colleagues found that the two hemispheres of the brain have different functions.
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