Joseph E. Bogen (July 13, 1926 – April 22, 2005) was an American neurophysiologist who specialized in split brain research and focused on theories of consciousness.
Bogen was part of a research team at Caltech with Roger Sperry and H. G. Gordon which conducted the first split brain study.
[1] His early surgical interventions to control epilepsy laid the foundation for the development of modern ideas about the unique identities of the right and left brains.
His work played a crucial role in the development of the split-brain experiments that won Caltech's Roger Sperry the 1981 Nobel Prize in physiology.
Bogen suggested that scientists look for a center (a nucleus) that has distributivity (i.e. widespread inward and outward connectivity) as a site that produces subjectivity as consciousness.