Essential Viewing
- An example of a split-brain experiment
- Mike Gazzaniga discusses his work with Alan Alda and shows variations of a split-brain with Joe, a patient and long-term experiment participant
Extra Reading:
- Split-brain surgery at Neuroscience for Kids
- Sperry’s Nobel Prize winning work at Nobelprize.org
Online Activities:
- Fill the blank quiz
- Play the Mr Split-Brainy Game at Nobelprize.org
- Kahoot: with others | on your own | make an account
- Create a simple flow-chart to remind yourself of the main elements of a split-brain experiment. The description in the presentation below should help.
Presentation:
