KEY STUDY –

SPERRY (1968) HEMISPHERE

DECONNECTION
Lo: To understand Sperry’s Hemisphere Deconnection study
 Learning Outcomes
All: Will be able to highlight the aim, method results, conclusion of
Sperry’s study

Most: Will be to able to create a representation of Sperry’s study

Some: Will be able to create an exam question based on Sperry’s

study

• Lo: To understand Sperry’s Hemisphere Deconnection study

 Brain Power!
• https://www.pro
profs.com/quiz-s Challenge:
chool/story.php? There has been a
title=true-false-b surge of research
rain-quiz into video games
and brain
disorders. Can you
find evidence of
video games
impacting brains?

• Lo: To understand Sperry’s Hemisphere Deconnection study

 Background: The two hemispheres
have different functions, this is
known as lateralisation of function
(specialisation of the hemisphere).

Activity The corpus callosum is a bundle of

nerve fibres which joins these two
halves of the brain, so they are able
to communicate. In the past, the
corpus callosum was sometimes
• Stick in Sperry’s (1968) study and read and highlight the AMRC! severed (i.e. cut) by surgeons in
order to improve symptoms of
severe epilepsy which was
uncontrollable by medication. 

• In groups of 2-3 Aim: To investigate the effects of

hemisphere de-connection and
1. Create a 6 question kahoot on this study for the class show that each hemisphere has
separate functions (lateralisation).
2. Draw out the study (using minimal words) Procedure: Sperry studied 11
patients to investigate behavioural
3. Create a True or false quiz on the study symptoms resulting from
hemisphere deconnection.
4. Create a mind map of Sperry’s study and evaluation on A3 paper Participants were asked to go
IF YOU HAVE FINISHED: CREATE YOUR OWN A02 EXAM through a series of visual tasks
focusing on the centre of a screen
QUESTION ON SPERRY where information was passed to
the left and right side of a dot on
the screen. This means that the left
side of the eye would pick up the
image on the right screen and the
◦ LO: To be able to describe and evaluate Sperry’s (1968) study on hemisphere deconnection
right eye would pick up the image
on the left side of the screen (due
to the lateralisation of the
Plenary
•The table that created the true or false quiz?
Please present!

◦ LO: To be able to describe and evaluate Sperry’s (1968) study on hemisphere deconnection