In 1981 Roger Sperry received the Nobel Prize in Physiology "for his discoveries concerning the functional specialization of the cerebral hemispheres".  Sperry performed the first 'split brain operation' and is credited with some of the most important insights we have of the physiology of the brain. He found that the left side of the brain is concerned with language, words, analysis and figures.  The right side is concerned with patterns, relationships, ar...