Background
Levy, Jerre Marie was born on April 7, 1938 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Daughter of Jerome Milton and Milton (Ullman) Levy.
Levy, Jerre Marie was born on April 7, 1938 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Daughter of Jerome Milton and Milton (Ullman) Levy.
Bachelor, U. Miami, 1962, Master of Science, 1966. Doctor of Philosophy, California Institute Technology, 1970. Postdoctoralfellow U. Colorado, Boulder, 1970-1971, Oregon State University, 1971-1972.
Assistant toassoc. professor of University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1972-1977.
Associate professor to professor University of Chicago, 1977. Consultant editor Journal Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Peformance, 1972-1984.
Associate editor Brain and Cognition, 1982-1992, Neuropsychologia, 1988, The Journal of Neuroscience, 1990. Editorial bd.Human Neurobiology, 1985-1987.
Contributor articles to professional journals and books
Grantee Spencer Foundation since 1979, National Institute of Mental Health, since 1979.
She earned a degree in psychology from the University of Miami in 1962. She received her Doctor of Philosophy in 1970. From 1972 to 1977 Levy taught at the University of Pennsylvania.
She then became a professor at the University of Chicago.
She has also found evidence that the left hemisphere specializes in linear reasoning, while the right brain is more involved in holistic reasoning. She claims that the two hemispheres of the brain work together for every human function rather than act as two separate brains, as Sperry believed.
Member of Society Experimental Psychologists, International Neuropsychol Symposium.
Children: Marie Basch, Todd Basch.