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Study 2 - Sperry (1968)

Sperry (1968) – Hemisphere Deconnection

Learning objective: The explain the study of Sperry (1968)


hemisphere deconnection.
Must define the aim of the study

Should explain the procedure, results and


conclusion

Could evaluate the study.


The role of the left and right hemisphere
Left Hemisphere Right hemisphere
• Control of right hand
• Right visual field • Control of left hand
• speech • Left visual Field
• Understanding written language • Spatial awareness (aware of
• Understanding what is heard
• Logical thinking our space
Broca’s area – Controls speech • Creativity
production • Recognizing faces
• If damaged, people find it
difficult to talk
• Musical ability
Background
Lets test it!
Reenactment of Sperry;s (1968) research
Sperry’s (1968) study

Normal person
What it should be
Sperry’s (1968) study

Split brain Patient


Identify with left hand Name with your right
What it should be
Aim

 Toinvestigate how how patients with ‘split-brains’


processed information compared to a normal brain.
Procedure

 11 patients that has their corpus Callosum cut.


 Sperry test their left and right brain to see if they had a ‘split-brain’.
 Sperry created different tasks to see if patients had a ‘split brain’ such as asked
patients to pick an item from a bag and name the object (without seeing it) to see if
the the left and right hemisphere can communicate with each other.
 There was also a task showing a picture of a nude was presented to the right
hemisphere to see what the reaction would be
Results

 In the first task, If patients used their right hand they could name the object with
ease. If they used their left hand they were unable to name it, but were able to
retrieve it from a grab bag (provided that the left hand was used). Showing the left
hand could not process what the right hand was doing showing split brain.
 In the second task the picture of a nude would produce blushing or giggling, with no
report verbally of having seen the image. This demonstrated that the right
hemisphere was involved in emotional processing.
Conclusion

 Sperry concluded that each hemisphere is capable of working


perfectly well without being connected to the other side.
 However each hemisphere seemed to have its own memories,
which without the corpus callosum could not communicate with
the other side.
Evaluation
Strengths & Weaknesses
 Reliable
Sperry gathered a lot of detailed information. Also the tasks were
standardised(same task for each participant) so therefore also increasing
reliability.
 Only 11 participants
Sample too small to generalise the results to a wider population.
Laboratory tasks are also artificial so therefore may lack ecological validity.
Your turn to try it
 In pairs, one should close there eyes and you should give them something to hold
to their left hand
 Time how long it takes for them to recognise the object.
 Then try with a different object to the left hand and time them again.
 Did one hand take longer than the other?
 Why do you think that was?
 Do they have a split brain 
(Ao2)Conclusion – Tables tells us that….

(Ao2) This suggests that….


This can be because…..
(Ao1) Findings from Sperry Study
(Ao2) Linking to the study/story

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