Psychological science michael gazzaniga biography

American psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist (born 1939)

Michael S. Gazzaniga (born December 12, 1939) is an American psychologist who is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he heads the new SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind.^[2] He is one of the leading researchers in cognitive neuroscience, the study of the neural basis of mind.^[3] He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Academy of Sciences.^[3]

Biography

In 1961, Gazzaniga graduated from Dartmouth College.

In 1964, he received a Ph.D. in psychobiology from the California Institute of Technology, where he worked under the guidance of Roger Sperry (who had primary responsibilities for initiating human split-brain research). In his subsequent work he has made important advances in our understanding of functional lateralization in the brain and how the cerebra