Michael S. Gazzaniga
Autor de Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain
Sobre El Autor
Michael S. Gazzaniga, one of the premiere doctors of neuroscience, was born on December 12, 1939 in Los Angeles. Educated at Dartmouth College and California Institute of Technology, he has been on the faculty of the Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis. His early research mostrar más examined the subject of epileptics who had undergone surgery to control seizures. He has also studied Alzheimer's and Parkinson's patients and reveals important findings in books such as Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind. While many of his writings are technical, he also educates and stimulates readers with discussions about the fascinating and mysterious workings of the brain. Books such as The Social Brain and The Mind's Past bring forth new information and theories regarding how the brain functions, interacts, and responds with the body and the environment. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras de Michael S. Gazzaniga
¿Qué nos hace humanos? : la explicación científica de nuestra singularidad como especie (2009) 421 copias
The Consciousness Instinct: Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Makes the Mind (2018) 144 copias
Nature's Mind: The Biological Roots of Thinking, Emotions, Sexuality, Language, and Intelligence (1992) 88 copias
o cérebro social 1 copia
Who's in Charge 1 copia
Good Reading in Psychology 1 copia
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Gazzaniga, Michael S.
- Nombre legal
- neurociencie cognitive
gazzaniga, michael - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1939-12-12
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- País (para mapa)
- USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Educación
- Dartmouth College
California Institute of Technology (PhD|1964) - Ocupaciones
- Professor (Psychology, University of California - Santa Barbara)
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Director (Law and Neuroscience Project) - Relaciones
- LeDoux, Joseph (student)
- Organizaciones
- President's Council on Bioethics
- Biografía breve
- Michael Gazzaniga is a Professor of Psychology and the Director for the SAGE Center for the Study of Mind at the University of California Santa Barbara. He oversees an extensive and broad research program investigating how the brain enables the mind. Over the course of several decades, a major focus of his research has been an extensive study of patients that have undergone split-brain surgery that have revealed lateralization of functions across the cerebral hemispheres.
In addition to his position in Santa Barbara, Professor Gazzaniga is also the Director of the Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, and President of the Cognitive Neuroscience Institute.
http://people.psych.ucsb.edu/gazzanig...
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