माइकल एस गाज़ानिगा (जन्म 12 दिसंबर, 1939) कैलिफोर्निया विश्वविद्यालय, संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका में सांता बारबरा में मनोविज्ञान के प्रोफेसर हैं, जहां वे मन के अध्ययन के लिए नए सेज सेंटर के प्रमुख हैं। वह संज्ञानात्मक तंत्रिका विज्ञान में अग्रणी शोधकर्ताओं में से एक है, मन के तंत्रिका आधार का अध्ययन। वह अमेरिकन एकेडमी ऑफ आर्ट्स एंड साइंसेज, इंस्टीट्यूट ऑफ मेडिसिन और नेशनल एकेडमी ऑफ साइंसेज के सदस्य हैं।
The Integrated Mind पीडीएफ माइकल गज़ानिगा
In this book we are trying to illuminate the persistent and nag ging questions of how mind, life, and the essence of being relate to brain mechanisms. We do that not because we have a commit ment to bear witness to the boring issue of reductionism but be cause we want to know more about what it's all about. How, in deed, does the brain work? How does it allow us to love, hate, see, cry, suffer, and ultimately understand Kepler's laws? We try to uncover clues to these staggering questions by con sidering the results of our studies on the bisected brain. Several years back, one of us wrote a book with that title, and the ap proach was to describe how brain and behavior are affected when one takes the brain apart. In the present book, we are ready to put it back together, and go beyond, for we feel that split-brain studies are now at the point of contributing to an understanding of the workings of the integrated mind. We are grateful to Dr. Donald Wilson of the Dartmouth Medi cal School for allowing us to test his patients. We would also like to thank our past and present colleagues, including Richard Naka mura, Gail Risse, Pamela Greenwood, Andy Francis, Andrea El berger, Nick Brecha, Lynn Bengston, and Sally Springer, who have been involved in various facets of the experimental studies on the bisected brain described in this book.