Summary Of The Split-Brain Experiment

Recent Applications Another study conducted by Mascetti (1997) over cats with split brain experiment this had similar results to Gazzaniga. “If the sensory inputs are lateralized to one or the other hemisphere, the section of these commissures in cats and monkeys (split-brain) leaves the hemisphere functionally disconnected in such a way that they have independent process of learning and memory” (Mascetti p. 913). The experiment had to do with cats and how the split-brain can affect their learning and memory style by switching which side of the brain they are using to perform. Mascetti (1997) discovered:
Experimental cats learned two visual pattern discriminations in which one pattern was positive for the right eye and the other pattern was positive for the left eye. Control cats learned the same problems, but the same pattern was positive for both eyes. The open eye was changed from one session to the next in both groups of cats. In general, monocular performances of experimental cats were asymmetrical because they learned better and faster with one eye than with the other. (p.
He applied for an internship at the California Institute of Technology because he wanted to spend the summer by this girl he met that winter. Gazzaniga ended up getting hooked on science while at that institution increasing his interest in other opportunities around the area. Later he found out about the Caltech facility that Sperry ran and had a meeting with him and eventually became part of the program. Throughout the years Sperry and Gazzaniga built a great relationship, started running experiments together, and had great findings in the Caltech lab. After becoming famous for successfully discovering the split-brain theory Gazzaniga created a name for himself, known as the godfather of cognitive science. He continued to run experiments and write books about his