Editing Roger Wolcott Sperry (section)

==Early life and education==
Sperry was born in [[Hartford, Connecticut]], to Francis Bushnell and Florence Kraemer Sperry. His father was in banking, and his mother trained in business school. He was raised in an upper middle-class environment, which stressed academic achievement.<ref name=Puente>{{cite journal|author=Puente, Antonio E. |url=http://rogersperry.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Puente-AmerPsychobit.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140109052211/http://rogersperry.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Puente-AmerPsychobit.pdf |archive-date=2014-01-09 |url-status=live |title=Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913–1994)|journal=American Psychologist|year=1995|volume=50|issue=11|pages=940–941|doi=10.1037/0003-066x.50.11.940|s2cid=201304771 }}</ref>  Roger had one brother, Russell Loomis. Their father died when Roger was 11.  Afterwards, his mother became assistant to the principal in the local high school.

Sperry went to [[Hall High School (Connecticut)|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]]. At Oberlin, he was captain of the basketball team, and he also took part in varsity baseball, football, and track. He also worked at a cafe on campus to help support himself. Sperry was an English major, but he took an Intro to Psychology class taught by a Professor named R. H. Stetson who had worked with [[William James]], the father of American Psychology.  This class sparked Sperry's interest in the brain and how it can change.  Stetson was disabled and had trouble getting around so Sperry would help him out by driving him to and from wherever he needed to go.  This included taking Stetson to lunch with his colleagues.  Sperry would just sit at the end of the table and listen to Stetson and his colleagues discuss their research and other psychological interests.  This increased Sperry's interest in Psychology even more and after he received his undergraduate degree in English from Oberlin he decided to stay and get his master's degree in Psychology. He received his bachelor's degree in English in 1935 and a master's degree in [[psychology]] in 1937. He received his Ph.D. in zoology from the [[University of Chicago]] in 1941, supervised by [[Paul Alfred Weiss|Paul A. Weiss]]. Sperry then did [[postdoctoral research]] with [[Karl Lashley]] at [[Harvard University]] though most of his time was spent with Lashley at the Yerkes Primate Research Center in [[Orange Park, Florida]].<ref name= rogersperry.org/>