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Who was the pioneer in the field of hemisphere lateralization where he demonstrated the phenomenon by researching ‘split-brain’ patients
A
Paul Broca
B
Willhelm Wundt
C
Rodger Sperry
D
Sigmund Freud
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In the 1950s and 1960s, Roger Sperry performed experiments on cats, monkeys, and humans to study functional differences between the two hemispheres of the brain in the United States. To do so he studied the corpus callosum, which is a large bundle of neurons that connects the two hemispheres of the brain.

Detailed explanation-2: -Among the first to characterize split-brain syndrome was American neurobiologist Roger Wolcott Sperry, who in the 1960s studied human split-brain subjects and contributed to the discovery that the left and right hemispheres of the brain carry out specialized duties.

Detailed explanation-3: -’ Roger Sperry, who initiated split-brain research and supervised the experiments on commisurotomy in humans, received a Nobel prize for this work in 1981 (Sperry 1982).

Detailed explanation-4: -Roger Wolcott Sperry studied the function of the nervous system in the United States during the twentieth century. He studied split-brain patterns in cats and humans that result from separating the two hemispheres of the brain after cutting the corpus callosum, the bridge between the two hemispheres of the brain.

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