Featured Participants in the Symposium on Personal Identity Michael S. Gazzaniga, Ph.D.
David T. McLaughlin Distinguished Professor, Dartmouth College;
Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College;
Member, President’s Council on Bioethics Michael Gazzaniga is the David T. McLaughlin Distinguished Professor and the Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth College, where he also serves as Dean of the Faculty. He did his graduate work in psychobiology under the guidance of Roger Sperry, with primary responsibility for initiating human split-brain research. He subsequently made remarkable advances in our understanding of functional lateralization in the brain and how the cerebral hemispheres communicate with one another. His many scholarly publications include the landmark 1995 book for MIT Press, The Cognitive Neurosciences, now in its third edition, which is recognized as the sourcebook for the field. He is much sought-after as an advisor to various institutes involved in brain research, and is a member of the President's Council on Bioethics. |
