Michael S. Gazzaniga, Author . Ecco $27.50 (447p) ISBN 978-0-06-089288-3
As wide-ranging as it is deep, and as entertaining as it is informative, the latest offering from UC–Santa Barbara neuroscientist Gazzaniga (The Ethical Brain
) will please a diverse array of readers. He is adept at aiding even the...
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Michael S. Gazzaniga, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $17.95 (255p) ISBN 978-0-395-42159-8
Interaction between mental states and the physiochemical changes in our brains can dramatically alter mood and anxiety, as biofeedback researchers have shown. Gazzaniga carries this insight one step further. In his theory, much of what we feel and...
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Michael S. Gazzaniga, Author Basic Books $25 (220p) ISBN 978-0-465-07649-9
Gazzaniga believes that circuits for language and problem-solving were built into the human brain as the result of millions of years of evolution. Selection theory, which this Dartmouth professor of psychiatry espouses, goes even further: it...
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Michael S. Gazzaniga. Ecco, $27.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-190610-7
Are our actions determined solely by physical processes, or is the mind its own master? This age-old philosophical conundrum gets a terrific, if ultimately indecisive, analysis in this engrossing study of the mechanics of thought. Gazzaniga (Human:...
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Michael S. Gazzaniga. Ecco, $28.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-222880-2
Gazzaniga (Who’s in Charge?), who helped develop the left-right theory of the brain, tells a winding tale of a life lived in science and the joys of bringing science to the public. Gazzaniga’s work on the “split brain” case studies spanned decades,...
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Michael S. Gazzaniga. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-374-71550-2
Bolstered by a background in neurobiology and human psychology, Gazzaniga (Tales from Both Sides of the Brain), director of the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind at UC Santa Barbara, adopts a philosophical approach in this insightful book—a “fres
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Michael S. Gazzaniga, Author, Gazzaniga, Author University of California Press $22.5 (216p) ISBN 978-0-520-21320-3
Gazzaniga, director of the program in cognitive neuroscience at Dartmouth and author of Mind Matters, The Social Brain and Nature's Mind, adds an engaging account of how and why the human brain creates a narrative to explain its experiences. Writing
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