Trinity College Dublin also awarded him with an honorary doctorate
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Michael S. Gazzaniga
Michael Saunders Gazzaniga is an American cognitive neuroscientist and professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the founder and retired director of the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind at UCSB (2006–2023).
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science · American psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist (born 1939) · psychologist · neuroscientist · physician · writer · university teacher · neurologist · also Michael S. Gazzaniga, Michael Gazzaniga, Gazzaniga, M.S., M. S. Gazzaniga, Michael S Gazzaniga, Gazzaniga, Michael S.
Born 12 December 1939 · Q738789
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2015· 1 entry
Awarded William James Fellow Award (2015).
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2011· 1 entry
Was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and received honorary doctorates from Dartmouth College and the University of Aberdeen
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2009· 1 entry
Delivered the Gifford Lectures on Mental Life at the University of Edinburgh
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology (2008).
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2006· 1 entry
Gazzaniga became the founding Director of the Sage Center for the Study of the Mind at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB), a role he took on after his time at Dartmouth
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2005· 1 entry
Was elected to the National Academy of Medicine
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1999· 1 entry
Won Ariëns Kappers Medal (1999).
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1992· 1 entry
Where he launched and served as the first Director of the Center for Neuroscience, where he continued to expand his pioneering research on brain function and cognitive processes
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1988· 1 entry
Still making monthly trips to New Hampshire in the mobile camper lab, he was offered a professorship at Dartmouth Medical School
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1982· 1 entry
Was elected Fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists in recognition for his studies on split-brain patients
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1979· 1 entry
When he was 26 years old, he underwent a two-stage callosotomy
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1978· 1 entry
And his good friend and colleague from Rockefeller University, Professor of Psychology George A
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1977· 1 entry
Gazzaniga was offered a job at Cornell University Medical College when Fred Plum, the chairman of the neurology department, decided his residents needed some schooling in neuropsychology
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1973· 1 entry
Took a position as professor of psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (and later became a professor of social sciences in Medicine)
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1969· 1 entry
Moved to New York University graduate school as an assistant professor and in 1972 became a full professor
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1961· 1 entry
Gazzaniga graduated from Dartmouth College with a B
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1939· 1 entry
Born 1939-12-12.
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