Michael S. Gazzaniga
Auteur de Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain
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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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
Œuvres de Michael S. Gazzaniga
The Consciousness Instinct: Unraveling the Mystery of How the Brain Makes the Mind (2018) 140 exemplaires
Nature's Mind: The Biological Roots of Thinking, Emotions, Sexuality, Language, and Intelligence (1992) 88 exemplaires
Learning, Arts, and the Brain: The Dana Consortium Reports on Arts and Cognition (2008) 2 exemplaires
Who's in Charge 1 exemplaire
Good Reading in Psychology 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Gazzaniga, Michael S.
- Nom légal
- Gazzaniga, Michael S.
- Date de naissance
- 1939-12-12
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Pays (pour la carte)
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Études
- Dartmouth College
California Institute of Technology (PhD|1964) - Professions
- Professor (Psychology, University of California - Santa Barbara)
Lecturer
Director (Law and Neuroscience Project) - Relations
- LeDoux, Joseph (student)
- Organisations
- President's Council on Bioethics
- Courte biographie
- 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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- Œuvres
- 35
- Membres
- 2,538
- Popularité
- #10,118
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 34
- ISBN
- 180
- Langues
- 12
- Favoris
- 1
He did not explore in depth what seemed like an obvious followup to the "people who are told free will does not exist will cheat more" experiments; even if the premise of moral inculpability is true, trying to spread this knowledge or build a justice system based on the proposed conclusions, could have far worse effects. Which kicks the dilemma back to philosophy and asking if we're primarily utilitarians caring about outcomes or if the Truth should be the foremost goal.… (plus d'informations)