Oral history interview with Jerre M. Levy 1984

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Name: Levy, Jerre, 1938- (Interviewee); Kranz, Bella (Interviewer)
Title: Oral history interview with Jerre M. Levy 1984
Abstract: 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.
Collection Name: Spencer Foundation project
Subjects: Women psychologists; Psychologists; Education--Research; Split brain; Cerebral dominance; Psychobiology; Levy, Jerre, 1938-; Spencer Foundation; University of Chicago
Format: oral histories; sound recordings
Genre: Interviews
Date: 1984

Note (Biographical): Psychologist.
Note: Interviewed by Bella Kranz on November 28, 1984.; Digitzed from analog recordings: Original available in the Columbia Center for Oral History, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries
Note (Provenance): Jerre M. Levy, Gift 1985
Language: English
Library Location: Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content
Catalog Record: 13506813
Also In: Oral History Archives at Columbia; Time-Based Media; Time-Based Media
Persistent URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-hpz6-7998
Related URLs: Available digital content for this interview.