Michael Gazzaniga
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| + | Michael Gazzaniga is one of the world's leading neuroscientists. He is a psychology professor at the University of California Santa Barbara and director for the SAGE Center for the Study of Mind. His research focuses on patients that have undergone split-brain surgery and that have revealed lateralization of functions across the cerebral hemispheres. | ||
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| + | == History == | ||
| + | Gazzaniga was born on December 12, 1939. As a child, he was always fascinated with examining things and even set up his own laboratory in his garage in high school to study the enzymes of rabbit muscle. His father, brothers, and sisters all loved to meddle around with surgical procedures as well. With this interest of his, he received a summer fellowship from Roger W Sperry at Caltech where he studied nerve growth. He later graduated from Dartmouth in 1961 and received a Ph.D in psychobiology from the California Institute of Technology in 1964 where he worked under Roger Sperry with primary responsibility for initiating human split-brain research. | ||
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Michael Gazzaniga is one of the world's leading neuroscientists. He is a psychology professor at the University of California Santa Barbara and director for the SAGE Center for the Study of Mind. His research focuses on patients that have undergone split-brain surgery and that have revealed lateralization of functions across the cerebral hemispheres.
History
Gazzaniga was born on December 12, 1939. As a child, he was always fascinated with examining things and even set up his own laboratory in his garage in high school to study the enzymes of rabbit muscle. His father, brothers, and sisters all loved to meddle around with surgical procedures as well. With this interest of his, he received a summer fellowship from Roger W Sperry at Caltech where he studied nerve growth. He later graduated from Dartmouth in 1961 and received a Ph.D in psychobiology from the California Institute of Technology in 1964 where he worked under Roger Sperry with primary responsibility for initiating human split-brain research.
