Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience pdf

迈克尔·加扎尼加（Michael S. Gazzaniga，1939 年 12 月 12 日出生）是美国加州大学圣巴巴拉分校的心理学教授，他领导新成立的 SAGE 心智研究中心。 他是认知神经科学领域的领先研究人员之一，该研究是对心理神经基础的研究。 他是美国艺术与科学院、医学研究所和美国国家科学院的成员。

Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience pdf 迈克尔·加扎尼加

Michael S. Gazzaniga, one of the most important neuroscientists of the twentieth century, gives us an exciting behind-the-scenes look at his seminal work on that unlikely couple, the right and left brain. Foreword by Steven Pinker. In the mid-twentieth century, Michael S. Gazzaniga, “the father of cognitive neuroscience,” was part of a team of pioneering neuroscientists who developed the now foundational split-brain brain theory: the notion that the right and left hemispheres of the brain can act independently from one another and have different strengths. In Tales from Both Sides of the Brain, Gazzaniga tells the impassioned story of his life in science and his decades-long journey to understand how the separate spheres of our brains communicate and miscommunicate with their separate agendas. By turns humorous and moving, Tales from Both Sides of the Brain interweaves Gazzaniga’s scientific achievements with his reflections on the challenges and thrills of working as a scientist. In his engaging and accessible style, he paints a vivid portrait not only of his discovery of split-brain theory, but also of his comrades in arms—the many patients, friends, and family who have accompanied him on this wild ride of intellectual discovery.