1\.R.W Sperry，“Cerebral Organization and Behavior：The Split Brain Behaves in Many Respects Like Two Separate Brains，Providing New Research Possibilities，”Science 133（1961）：1749-57. 2\.不是指左眼和右眼，而是每只眼睛的左边和右边，这一点很关键。 3\.Life Magazine，October 1，1971，p.43.The extract below this quote is also from p.43. 4\.斯佩里，逝于1994年，是安东尼奥E.普恩特（Antonio E.Puente）的导师。普恩特是北卡罗来纳大学威名顿分校的心理学教授，也是斯佩里的传记作者。我们询问他，斯佩里是否想让他的研究促成大众文化中的左右脑故事。他写道：“我所听过的罗杰·斯佩里的最‘令人震惊’的评论发生在他接受美国心理学会颁发的终生成就奖的时候。在他简短的演讲中，他说了一些关于他的左半脑不能充分地表达右半脑所感受的情感。……他的文字和他的科学一样保守。这不是他的意愿，他也很少和人分享。” 5\.R.w.Sperry，“Consciousness，Personal Identity and the Divided Brain，”Neuropsychologia 22（1984）：661-73. 6\.See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-yhtXAzYwc.There are many other postings.The spinning dancer was revealed to be an optical illusion by Steven Novella，Yale University School of Medicine clinical neurologist，on October 11，2007，in his article“Left Brain-Right Brain and the Spinning Girl，”on his NeuroLogicaBlog：Your Daily Fix of Neuroscience，Skepticism and Critical Thinking.The correct description of the spinning dancer as optical illusion was more widely publicized in the New York Times on April 28，2008，in a blog posting by Tara Parker-Pope，who wrote：“While the dancer does indeed reflect the brain savvy of its creator，Japanese Web designer Nobuyuki Kayahara，it is not a brain test.Instead，it is simply an optical illusion called a reversible，or ambiguous，image.” 7\.See www.wherecreativitygoestoschoo1.com/vancouver/left\_right/rb\_test.htm. 8\.See http://homeworktips.about.com/library/brainquiz/bl\_leftright brain\_quiz.htm. 9\.See www.squidoo.com/braintest. 10\.See www.amazon.com/Brainy-Baby-Inspires-Logical-Thinking/dp/B000063UYK/ref=sr\_1\_4?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF88cqid=1315481288&sr=1-4and www.amazon.com/Brainy-Baby-Right-Brain/dp/B000063UYL/ref=pd\_cp\_mov\_1. 11\.See www.nurtureminds.com/soroban-abacus.htm. 12\.See www.mastermindabacus.com/blog\_abacus/abacus-stimulates-whole-brain-deve1opment/. 13\.See http://www.youngevity.net/product/RG037\_Brain.html. 14\.About a third of left-handers have the reverse organization，with the left hemisphere performing the functions carried out by the right hemisphere of right-handed people，and vice versa；for simplicity of exposition，we will not reacknowledge this qualification throughout the text. 15\.Winfrey described herself as“a right-brain kind of person”in the De-cember 2008issue of O：The Oprah Magazine. 16\.Daniel H.Pink，A Whole New Mind：Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age.Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future（New York：Riverhead，2005）. 17\.Brenda Milner，“Interhemispheric Differences in the Localization of Psychological Processes in Man，”British Medical Bulletin 27（1971）：272-77. 18\.S.Harnad and H.Steklis，“Comment on J.Paredes and M.Hepburn’s‘The Split Brain and the Culture-and-Cognition Paradox，’”Current Anthropoloy 17（1976）：320-22.