Roger Sperry won a Nobel Prize in medicine in 1981 for work which revealed, among other things, that the _____
A)left hemisphere can't recognize objects.
B)right hemisphere can't recognize objects.
C)left hemisphere can recognize, but not name, objects.
D)right hemisphere can recognize, but not name, objects.

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Sperry's study of split-brain patients demonstrated that an object shown only to the left eye-thus transmitted only to the right hemisphere-can be recognized. However, because the image did not go to the left hemisphere, the object can't be named, and the patient will verbally deny seeing anything.

Roger Sperry Won a Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1981