Michael Gazzaniga
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Overview
Michael S. Gazzaniga (born December 12, 1939) is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), where he heads the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1961 and received his Ph.D in psychobiology from the California Institute of Technology in 1964, in which he worked closely with Roger Sperry. His work allowed for further understanding of lateralization in the brain and how the cerebral hemispheres are able to communicate with one another. Gazzaniga speared headed much split-brain research, in which the corpus callosum and cerebral disconnection syndrome are common to him.
Education
- Dartmouth College (1961), A.B.
- California Institute of Technology (1964), Ph. D
- California Institute of Technology, Post-graduate Fellow, (1964-66)
- National Institute of Health (NIH) Fellowship, Institute of Physiology, Pisa, Italy, (August-December, 1966)
Books
Gazzaniga's authorship has spanned the gamut in the neurosciences, making accessible information about brain function to the public.
- Mind, Brain, and Behavior (2006)
- The Cognitive Neurosciences III (2004)
- The Ethical Brain (2005)
- The Biology of the Mind (2002)
- The New Cognitive Neurosciences (2nd edition) (2000)
- The Mind's Past (1998)
- Conversations in Cognitive Neuroscience (1996)
- The Cognitive Neurosciences (1995)
- Nature's Mind (1992)
- Extending Psychological Frontiers: Selected Works of Leon Festinger (1989)
- Mind Matters (1988)
- The Social Brain (1985)
- Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience (1984)
- Neuropsychology: Handbook of Behavioral Neurobiology (Vol. 2) (1979)
- Functional Neuroscience (1979)
- The Integrated Mind (1978)
- Handbook of Psychobiology (1975)
- Fundamentals of Psychology (1973)
- Good Readings in Psychology (1971)
- The Bisected Brain (1970)
Current
Gazzaniga's most recent research through NIH funding involves the neurology and cognitive analysis of callosotomy patients. In other words, the major goal of this initiative is to analyze split-brain patients (exclusively) with perceptual and cognitive tests. In addition to his professorship at UCSB, Gazzaniga is also the Director of the Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, President of the Cognitive Neuroscience Institute, and is a member of the President's Council on Bioethics.
