Roger Sperry: pioneer of neuronal specificity.

ESSAYS ON APS CLASSIC PAPERS Roger Sperry: pioneer of neuronal specificity

This essay looks at the historical significance of two APS classic papers that are freely available online: Sperry RW. Optic nerve regeneration with return of vision in anurans. J Neurophysiol 7: 57–69, 1944 (http://jn.physiology.org/cgi/reprint/7/1/57). Sperry RW. Restoration of vision after crossing of optic nerves and after contralateral transplantation of eye. J Neurophysiol 8: 15–28, 1945 ...

Neuronal Specificity & Plasticity: from Sperry to the Blue Brain

This is a modest review of a couple of papers devoted to an examination of neural specificity and invariance among microcircuits in neocortical columns and minicolums, and the loci of experience dependent plasticity and learning within and between these microcircuits. It focuses on somatosensory cortex, but the appendix covers visual research as well on some of the early work on these issues, f...

The Split Brain Revisited

Roger Sperry and Split-brain Function.

Roger Wolcott Sperry (20 August 1913-17 April 1994).