A Timeline of the Published Works of
Roger W. Sperry
 
 
 
 
 
 
1939 1.  Action current study in movement coordination.
2.  Functional results of muscle transplantation in the hind limb of albino rat.
1940 3.  The functional results of muscle transposition in the hind limb of the rat.
4.  Unmodifiability of muscular coordination as demonstrated by muscle transposition and nerve crossing.
5.  Mammalian muscle action potentials of than a millisecond.
6.  The effect of crossing nerves to antagonistic muscles in the hind limb of the rat.
7.  Functional results of crossing nerves and transposing muscle the fore and hind limbs of the rat.
 
1942 8.   Fixed persistence in the rat of spinal reflex patterns rendered extremely maladaptive by cross union of sensory nerves.
9.   Reestablishment of visuolmotor coordination s by optic nerve regeneration.
10. Transplantation of motor nerves and muscles in the forelimb rat.
 
1943 11. Effect of 180-degree rotation of the retinal field on visuomotor coordination.
12. Functional results of crossing sensory nerves in the rat.
13. Olfactory discrimination after destruction anterior thalamic nuclei.
14.  Visuolmotor coordination of the newt regeneration of the optic nerve.
 
1944 15.  Optic nerve regeneration with return of vision in anurans.
16.  Optic nerve regeneration with return of vision in anurans.
 
1945 17.  Centripetal regeneration of the 8th cranial nerve root with systematic restoration of  vestibular reflexes.
18.  Fixed persistence in the rat of spinal reflect patterns rendered extremely maladaptive by cross union of sensory nerves.
19.  Horizontal intracortical organization in the cerebral control movement.
20.  Restoration of vision after nerve regeneration and muscle transposition.
21.  The problem of central nervous reorganization after nerve regeneration and muscle transposition.
 
1946 22.  Restoration of vision after crossing of optic nerves and after contralateral transplantation of eye.
23.  Ontogenetic development and maintenance of compensatory eye movements in complete absence of the optic nerve.
 
1947 24.  Cerebral regulation of motor coordination in monkeys following multiple transaction of sensormotor cortex.
25.  Effect of crossing nerves to antagonistic limb muscles in the monkey.
26.  Nature of functional recovery following regeneration of the oculomotor nerve in amphibians.
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1948 27.  Effect of crossing nerves to antagonistic limb muscles in the monkey.
28.  Orderly patterning of synaptic associations in regeneration of intracentral fiber tracts mediation visuomotor coordination.
29.   Patterning of central synapses in regeneration of the optic nerve in teleosts.
 
1949 30.  Patterning of central synapses in regeneration of the optic nerve in teleoxts.
31.   Formation within sensory nucleus V of synaptic associations mediation cutanious localization.
32.   Interocular transfer of visual discrimination habits in a telcost fish.
33.   Reimplantation of eyes in fishes with recovery vision.
34.   Reimplantation of eyes in fishes with recovery vision.
 
1950 35.   Interocular transfer of visual discrimination habits of a teleost fish.
36.   Myotyic specificity in teleost montoneurons.
37.   Neural basis of the spontaneous optokinetic response production visual inversion.
38.   Neural basis of the spontaneous optokinetic response production visual inversion.
39.   Neuronal specificity.
40.   Observations on the genesis of cutaneous.
 
1951 41.   Myotoypic specificity in teleost montoneurons.
42.   Developmental patterning of neural circuits.
43.   Mechanisms of neural maturation.
44.   Regulative factors in the orderly growth of neural circuits.
 
1952 45.   Regulative factors in the orderly growth of neural circuits.
46.   Neurology and the mind-brain problem.
47.   On brain field forces in visual pattern perception.
 
1953 48.   Interocular transfer of a visual form discrimination habit in cats after section of the optic chaism and corpus callosum.
49.   Regeneration studies and learning.
 
1954 50.   Pattern perception after implantation of dielectric plates in the visual cortex.
 
1955 51.   Functional regeneration in the optic system.
52.   On the neural basis of the condition response.
53.   Problems in the biochemical specification of neuron.
54.   Visual pattern perception following subpial slicing and tantalum with implantation s in the visual cortex.
55.   Pattern perception following insertion of mica plates into the visual cortex.
 
1956 56.   Contralateral mnemonic effects with ipsilateral sensory inflow.
57.   Experiments on perceptual integration in animals.
58.   The eye and the brain.
59.   Functional recovery following alterations in verve-muscle connections of fishes.
60.   Relearning tests for interocular transfer following division of optic chaism and corpus callosum in cats.
 
1957 61.   Myotypic respecification of regenerated nerve fibers in cichlid fishes.
62.   Brain mechanisms in behavior.
63.   High order integrative functions in surgically isolated somatic cortex in cat.
64.   The Evolution of Human Nature.
65.   Function of corpus callosum in contralateral transfer on somesthetic discrimination in cats.
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1958 66.   Studies on color discrimination following optic nerve regeneration in the cichlik fish.
67.   Interhamispheric communication through the corpus callosum.
68.   Brain mechanisms in behavior.
69.   Concepts re a concept.
70.   Corpus callosum and interhemispheric transfer in the monkey.
71.   Developmental basis of behavior.
72.   Physiological plasticity and brain circuit theory.
 
1959 73.   Contralateral transfer of somesthetic discriminations in monkeys after section of major hemispheric commissures.
74.   Intermanual transfer of somesthetic discriminations in split-brain Rhesus monkeys.
75.   Cisuomoter integration in split-brain cats.
76.   The Central Nervous System and Behavior.
77.   Preservation of high-order function in isolated somatic cortex in callosum-sectioned cat.
78.   Preservation of high-order function in isolated somatic cortex in callosum-sectioned cat.
79.   The growth of nerve circuits.
 
1960 80.   Central routes taken by regeneration optic fibers.
81.   Intermanual somesthetic transfer in split-brain Rhesus monkeys.
82.   Delayed response performance of split-brain monkeys with unilateral prefrontal ablation and optic tract section.
83.   Perceptual capacity of the isolated visual cortex in the cat.
84.   Intermanual transf3er in split-brain monkeys after somatic cortical ablation.
 
1961 85.   Cerebral organization and behavior.
86.   Come funziona mezzo cervello.
87.   Orderly unction with disordered structure.
88.   Some developments in brain lesion studies of learning.
89.   Central nervous pathways involved in conditioning.
 
1962 90.   Optic nerve regeneration after surgical cross-union of medial and lateral optic tracts.
91.   Some functional effects of sectioning the cerebral commissures in man.
92.   Neural mechanisms in visual guidance of limb movement.
93.   Some general aspects of interhamispheric integration.
94.   Problems of molecular coding.
 
1963 95.   Color discrimination after optic nerve regeneration in the fish.
96.   Preferential selection of central pathways.
97.   Laterality effects in somesthesis following cerebral commisurotomy in man.
98.   Delayed response performance following optic tract section, unilateral frontal lesion, and commissurotomy.
99.   Cisuomotor coordination in monkeys after optic tract section and commissurotomy.
100.   Chemoallinity in the orderly growth of nerve fiber patterns and connections.
101.   Evidence behind chemoallinity theory of synaptic patterning.
102.   Recovery of sight after transplantation of eyes and regeneration of retina and optic nerve.
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1964 103.   Selectivity in regeneration and reconnection of the oculomotor nerve in cichild fishes.
104.   Some comparative effects of disconnection the cerebral hemispheres.
105.   The great cerebral commissure.
106.   Corpus callosum and perceptual integration of visual half-field s.
107.   Problems outstanding in the evolution of brain function.
108.   Bimanual coordination in monkeys.
 
1965 109.   Language in human patients after brain bisection.
110.   Corpus callosum and intermodal Visio-tactile integration in the monkey.
111.   Observations on visual perception after disconnection of the cerebral hemispheres in man.
112.   Conference on Learning Remembering, and forgetting.
113.   Embryogenesis of behavioral nerve nets.
114.   Selective communication in nerve nets: impulse specificity vs. connection specificity.
115.   Selectivity in regeneration of the oculomotor nerve in the cichlid fish.
116.   Impulse specificity vs. connection specificity: Selective communication in nerve nets.
117.   Studies on nerve growth and selective nerve muscle connections in fishes.
118.   Mink, brain and humanist values.
119.   Brain bisection and mechanisms of consciousness.
 
1966 120.   Brain bisection and mechanisms of consciousness.
121.   Simultaneous double discrimination response following brain bisection.
122.  Visuomotor control in monkeys following brain lesions.
123.   Visuomotor control in monkeys following brain lesions.
124.   Brain research: Some head-splitting implications.
125.   Mind, brain and humanist values.
 
1967 126.   Language following surgical disconnection of the hemispheres.
127.   Language after section of the cerebral commissures.
128.   Syndrome of hemisphere disconnection.
129.   Syspraxia following division of the cerebral commissures.
130.   Split-brain approach to learning problems.
131.   Mind, brain and humanist values.
 
1968 132.   Absence of commissurotomy symptoms with ageneses of corpus callosum.
133.   Psychobiology and vice versa.
134.   Mentalunity following surgical disconnection of the cerebral hemispheres.
135.   Hemisphere disconnection and unity in conscious awareness.
136.   Plasticity of neural maturation.
137.   Regulative factors in orderly growth of retinotectal connections.
138.   Bimanual coordination in monkeys.
139.   Interhemispheric comparison of color in split-brain.
140.   Apposition of visual half-fields after section of neocortical commissures.
141.   Lateralized suppression of dichotically presented digits after commissural section in man.
142.   Differential perceptual capacities in major and minor hemispheres.
 
1969 143.   Lateralization of olfactory perception in the surgically separated hemispheres of man.
144.   Interhemispheric relationships: hemisphere disconnection.
145.   Commissural section and the propagation of seizures.
146.   Toward a theory of mink.
147.   A modified  concept of consciousness.
148.   Hemispheric specialization as reflected in the syndrome of the neocortical commissures.
149.   Variations of the hujan cerebral commissurotomy syndrome with birth injury in the dominant arm area.
150.   Central integration of visual half fields in split-brain monkeys.
 
1970 151.   Early experience in visual information processing in perceptual and reading disorders.
152.  Perception in the absence of the neocortical commissures.
153.   An objective approach to subjective experience.
154.   Brain function and learning.
155.   Tests for hemispheric disconnection symptoms following partial section of the corpus callosum in man.
156.   Crossed temperature discrimination following section of forebrain neocortical commissures.
157.   Mental capacities of the disconnection minor hemisphere following commissurotomy.
158.   Superiority of the right hemisphere of man for perception of part-whole relations.
 
1971 159.   How a developing brain gets itself properly wired for adaptive function.
160.   Minor hemisphere function in the human commissurotomy patient.
161.   Absence of disconnection syndrome in two patients with partial section of the neocommissures.
162.   Expressive language in the surgically separated minor hemisphere.
163.   Lateral specialization and cerebral dominance in the commissurotomy.
164.  The formation of nerve connections.
165.   Hemispheric disconnection syndrome with cerebral birth injury in the dominant arem area.
 
1972 166.   Perception of bilateral chimeric figures following hemispheric disconnection.
167.   Hemispheric specialization of mental faculties in the brain of man.
168.   The two brain of man.
169.   Science and the problem of values.
170.   Cerebral function following surgical separation of the hemispheres in man.
 
1973 171.   Interhemispheric interaction during simultanious bilateral presentation of letters of digits in commissurotomized patients.
172.   Performance on the Taven s colored progressive matrices by subjects with cerebralcommissurotomy.
173.   Lateral specialization of cerebral function in the surgically separated hemispheres.
174.   Perceptual unminty of the ambient visual field in human commissurotomy patients.
175.   Anmesic effects of lithium chloride in chicks.
176.   Tests for neuroplasticity in the anuran retinotectal system.
177.   Level of consciousness in the surgically disconnected hemispheres.
178.   Hemisphere disconnection and unity in conscious awareness.
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1974 179.   Changing concepts of mind and some value implications.
180.   Lateral specialization in the surgically separated hamispheres.
181.   Explanatory models for neuroplasticity in retinotectal connections.
182.   Messages from the laboratory.
183.   Science and the problem of values.
184.   Interhemispheric revalry during simultaneous bilateral talk presentation in commissurotomized patients.
185.   Memory impairment after commissurotomy in man.
186.   Dichotic listening to synthetic stop consonants in the disconnection hemispheres of man.
 
1975 187.   Tests for left-right chemospecificity in frog cutancous nerve.
188.   Models, new and old, for growth of retinitictal connections.
189.   Science looks at human values.
190.   Left-brain, right-brain.
191.   In search of psyche.
192.   Mental phenomena as causal determinationts in brain function.
193.   Messages from the laboratory.
194.   Bridging science and values: a unifiying view of mind and brain.
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1976 195.   hemispheric specialization of mental faculties in the brain of man .
196.   Retinotectal specificity: Chemoallinity theory.
197.   Changing concepts of consciousness and free will.
198.   A unifying approach to mind and brain: Ten year perspective.
199.   Mental phenomina as causal determinants in brain function.
200.   A modified concept of consciousness.
 
1977 201.   hemisphere lateralization for cognitive processing of geometry .
202.   Some lont-term motor effects of cerebral commissurotomy in man.
203.   Bridging science and values: a unifying view of mind and brain.
204.   Consciousness form nerurons.
205.   Forebrain commissurotomy and conscious awareness.
206.   Reply to professor Problems.
207.   Absolute values: Problem of the ultimate frame of reference.
208.   Problems outstanding in the evolution of brain function.
 
1978 209.   Mentalist monism:  Consciousness as a causal mergent of the brain process.
 
1979 210.   Self-recognition and social awareness in the disconnection minor hemisphere.
211.   Consciousness, freewill and personal identity.
212.   Bridging science and values: A unifying view of mind and brain.
213.   Capacity for holding sustained attention.
 
1980 214.   Mind-brain interaction: Mentalssm, yes; dualism, no.
215.   Mind-brain interaction: Mentalssm, yes; dualism, no.
216.   Lateralized division of attention in the commissurotomized and intace brain.
217.   Consciousness, personal identity and the divided brain.
 
1981 Winner of the NOBEL PRIZE
218.   Changing proprities.
219.   Left and right intellegence.
220.   Mind-brain interaction: Mentalism, yes; dualism, no.
221.   Some effects of disconnection the cerebral hemispheres.
 
1982 222.   A simple technique for lateralized visual input that allows prolonged viewing.
223.   Some effects of disconnection the cerebral hemispheres.
224.   Some effects of disconnection the cerebral hemispheres.
225.   Forebrain commissurotomy and conscious awareness.
 
1983 226.   Science and moral Priority.
227.   (Interview) Roger Sperry.
228.   (Interview) Roger Sperry.
229.   Changed concepts of brain and consciousness: Some value implications.
230.   Hemispheric specialization in nonverbal communication.
 
1984 231.   Contributions of the right cerevral hemisphere in perceiving paralinguistic cues of emotion.
232.   Left hemisphere involvement in left spatical neglect from right-sided lesions: A commissurotomy study.
233.   Consciousness, personal identity and the divided brain.
 
1985 234.   Changed concepts of brain and consciousness: Some value implications.
235.   Interhemispheric communication after section of the forebrain commissures.
236.   The cognitive role of belief: Implications of the new mentalsim.
237.   Response to critique of Howard Slatte.
238.   Citation classic.
239.   Science and Moral Priority.
240.   Nobel Prize Converstaions.
241.   Consciousness, personal identity and the dived brain.
242.   Science and Moral Priority.
 
1986 243.   A world security system.
244.   Discussion: Macro-versus micro-determinism.
245.   The new mentalist paradigm and ultimate concern.
246.   Science, values and survival.
247.   The heman predicament: A way out.
248.   Toward a higher system of world law and justice.
249.   Vital holistic phenomena and properties of living things.
250.   Opening address for Wenner-Gren Center International.
251.   Nasturwissenschaft and Werrientscheidung.
252.   Consciousness.
 
1987 253.   Toward a higher system of world law and justice.
254.   Structure and significance of the consciousness revolution.
255.   Consciousness and causality.
256.   The science-values relation: Impact of the consciousness revolution.
257.   New mindset on consciousness.
258.   Opening Address for Wenner-Gren Center International Symposium on The Duel Brain: Functioning of the hemispheres.
 
1988 259.   Amici Curiae brief of 167 distinguished scientists and physicians, including 11 Nobel laureates.
260.   Psychology s mentalist paradigm and the religion/science tension.
261.   Roger Sperry s Brain research.
262.   New mindset on consciousness.
263.   Structure and significance of the consciousness revolution.
 
1989
-1990		 264.   Turnabout on consciousness: new paradigm for causation.
265.   For the future of the world s children.
266.   Structure and significance of the consciousness revolution.
267.   Structure and significance of the consciousness revolution.
 
1991 268.   Brief Smici Curae in petition for writ of certiorari.
269.   Search for beliefs to live by consistent with science.
270.   In defense of mentalism and emergent interaction.
 
1992 271.   Yoking Science and Religion.
272.   Paradigms of belief, theory and meta-theory .
273.   Turnabout on consciousness: A mentalist view.
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1993 274.   Amentalist view of consciousness.
275.   The impact and promise of the cognitive revolution.
276.   The cognitive revolution: A new paradigm for causation.
277.   Acceptance remarks, Outstanding Lifetime Contribution Award.
278.   Calues for high quality sustainable world.
1994 279.   Estructura signifcacion de la revolucion de la conciencia.
280.   Estructura signifcacion de la revolucion de la conciencia.
281.   Estructura signifcacion de la revolucion de la conciencia.
282.   Holding course amid shifting paradigms.
283.   The riddle of consciousness and the changing scientific worldview.
284.   Consciousness and the cognitive revolution: a ture world view paradigm shift.
285.   Consciousness and the cognitive revolution: a ture world view paradigm shift.
286.   A powerful paradigm made stronger.
287.   A powerful paradigm made stronger.