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Michael S. Gazzaniga

Michael S. Gazzaniga
Michael S. Gazzaniga is the director of the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the president of the Cognitive Neuroscience Institute, the founding director of the MacArthur Foundation’s Law and Neuroscience Project, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and the National Academy of Sciences. He is the author of many popular science books, including Tales from Both Sides of the Brain. His most recent book is The Consciousness Instinct. He lives in California.


How Does Consciousness Work?

A Look at the Complex Neural Network that Creates Our Unified Sense of Reality
April 3, 2018  By Michael S. Gazzaniga
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