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Michael Gazzaniga

Professor of Psychology and Director of the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind,

University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

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Entry in The Information Philosopher

Interview on free will in Scientific American  

Interview in the New York Times

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Selected publications relevant to consciousness

Gazzaniga, M. S. (1992). Nature’s mind: The biological roots of thinking, emotions, sexuality, language, and intelligence. London: Basic Books.

Gazzaniga, M. S. (1995). Consciousness and the cerebral hemispheres. In M. S. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The cognitive neurosciences, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press 1391–1400).

Cooney, J. W., & Gazzaniga, M. S. (2003). Neurological disorders and the structure of human consciousness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7(4), 161–165. Full text here.

Video

Basic split brain science primer, with patient, January 2017

Interview with Sue Blackmore, June 2015

Tales from both sides of the brain. Interview for Arts and Ideas, Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, February 2015

How free is your will? Interview for My Mind’s Eye, June 2014

Talk on the modular brain at Seattle Brain Salon, May 2012

The science of mind constraining matter. Gifford lectures, University of Edinburgh, 2009. Includes six talks (with abstracts), on: what we are; distributed networks of mind; the interpreter; free yet constrained and determined; the social brain; we are the law

Audio

The split brain: A tale of two halves. Nature podcast, March 2012