Oral history interview with Jerre M. Levy, 1984.

Biographical Note

Psychologist.

Scope and Contents

Childhood experiences and their effect on later professional decisions; undergraduate education; problems encountered at the University of Miami in obtaining a graduate assistant's position; move to California Institute of Technology and exposure to split-brain experiments; fascination with human split-brain experimentation; rotational studies of rats to dtermine sidedness; experiments determining regulation of sidedness; impact of Spencer funds; impressions of H. Thomas James; reasons for going to the University of Chicago and academic atmosphere there.

Subjects

• Cerebral dominance.
• Education--Research.
• Interviews.
• Kranz, Bella, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Levy, Jerre, 1938---Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Psychobiology.
• Psychologists--Interviews.
• Spencer Foundation.
• Split brain.
• University of Chicago.
• Women psychologists--Interviews.