Michael S. Gazzaniga Quotes

Our brains renew themselves throughout life to an extent previously thought not possible.

Our brains renew themselves throughout life to an extent previously thought not possible.

Michael S. Gazzaniga

Robert Sapolsky, professor of neurology at Stanford, makes the extremely strong statement: It’s boggling that the legal system’s gold standard for an insanity defense—M’Naghten—is based on 166-year-ol...

Robert Sapolsky, professor of neurology at Stanford, makes the extremely strong statement: It’s boggling that the legal system’s gold standard for an insanity defense—M’Naghten—is based on 166-year-ol...

Michael S. Gazzaniga

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