This class sparked Sperry's interest in the brain and how it can change. Stetson who had worked with William James, the father of American Psychology. Sperry was an English major, but he took an Intro to Psychology class taught by a Professor named R. He also worked at a cafe on campus to help support himself. At Oberlin, he was captain of the basketball team, and he also took part in varsity baseball, football, and track. Sperry went to Hall High School in West Hartford, Connecticut, where he was a star athlete in several sports, and did well enough academically to win a scholarship to Oberlin College. Afterwards, his mother became assistant to the principal in the local high school.
He was raised in an upper middle-class environment, which stressed academic achievement. His father was in banking, and his mother trained in business school. Sperry was born in Hartford, Connecticut, to Francis Bushnell and Florence Kraemer Sperry. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Sperry as the 44th most cited psychologist of the 20th century. Roger Wolcott Sperry (Aug– April 17, 1994) was an American neuropsychologist, neurobiologist, cognitive neuroscientist, and Nobel laureate who, together with David Hunter Hubel and Torsten Nils Wiesel, won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his work with split-brain research.
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