Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience
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Michael S. Gazzaniga, Tales From Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience. HarperAudio, 2015.

Michael S. Gazzaniga. Tales From Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience. Unabridged HarperAudio, 2015.

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     Michael S. Gazzaniga is internationally recognized in the field of neuroscience and a pioneer in cognitive research. He is the director of the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of many popular science books, including Who's in Charge? (Ecco, 2011). He has six children and lives in California with his wife.

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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.

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     December 22, 2014
     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, universities, and medical schools, but as he makes clear, there’s much more to a life than the pursuit of science as a career. Outside his research, Gazzaniga kept busy by organizing public debates featuring William F. Buckley Jr. and others, which led Buckley to invite him on Firing Line and to write pieces for National Review, including a spoof of the Pentagon Papers. But the substance of his work with patients is also covered in exhaustive detail that conveys how science is made: “slowly, with lots of people contributing.” Less successfully, episodes from Gazzaniga’s personal life—marriages, burials, new houses, job searches—are also included. Perhaps these show the contours of an academic life, but they read drily. Gazzaniga’s book is of great interest to those embarking on careers in pure research, and to anyone intrigued by the story of one of the greatest discoveries in cognition. Agent: John Brockman, Brockman Inc.

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     January 1, 2015
     

     Gazzaniga (psychology, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara; Who's in Charge?), who heads the new SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind and is a leading researcher in cognitive neuroscience, has written numerous books for scientists and laypersons and hundreds of peer-reviewed articles on how the brain works and lateralization of brain functions. This engaging, accessible biography describes not only his research, but his family life as well. It illustrates that work in the laboratory does not occur in a vacuum and that advances in science are sometimes inspired by people working in other fields as well as students and mentors. Gazzaniga speaks with candor about the many scientists he has worked with and how they inspired his research. He also acknowledges the exceptional contributions of the split-brain patients he has been close to for most of his career. It is fascinating to read about the stories going on behind the split-brain experiments that don't make it into the scientific literature. VERDICT Good for readers who enjoy scientific biographies and anyone interested in neuroscience.--Margaret Henderson, Midlothian, VA

     Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     September 15, 2014
     

     Sometimes called the father of cognitive neuroscience, Gazzaniga (Who's in Charge: Free Will and the Science of the Brain) was part of the team that first determined that the two different hemispheres of the brain have different strengths. Here he relates his life in science while telling us everything we'd like to know about split-brain theory.

     Copyright 2014 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     November 15, 2014
     "How on earth does the brain enable mind?" That is the still-to-be-answered question posed by Gazzaniga (Who's in Charge: Free Will and the Science of the Brain, 2011, etc.), the director of the SAGE Center for the Study of Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara.In this scientific memoir, the author chronicles his 50-year career at the forefront of research and "the scientific saga" in which he still plays a part. "I have come to realize the great extent to which my own march through life has been influenced by others," he writes, ."..and how we scientists are all a composite of both scientific and nonscientific experiences." His own scientific journey began as a graduate student at Caltech, where the hot topic was "split brain research [on animals] which was trying to find out if each hemisphere of the brain could learn independently from the other." His focus became the study of epileptic patients who underwent similar surgery to control intractable seizures, and he describes his stunning realization that his first human subject's "right brain completed an act of which his own left hemisphere had no knowledge." In effect, two separate minds were functioning in the same body. Though they could not communicate directly, over time, they developed indirect ways of cueing each other. Gazzaniga describes how this discovery paved the way for understanding how normal brains use modular processes that work in parallel to process information and come to decisions. The author writes warmly of the people who shared in his discoveries and his many friendships. In a foreword, Steven Pinker pays tribute to Gazzaniga not only for his scientific achievements, "midwifing the field of cognitive neuroscience, but...for showing that science is compatible with all the other good things in life." A lively appreciation of both the complexity of the human mind and the scientific enterprise.

     COPYRIGHT(2014) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     Starred review from December 1, 2014
     Gazzaniga may not be a household name, but he is considered one of the most important neuroscientists of our time. In this fascinating memoir, this pioneer in cognitive research offers a behind-the-scenes examination of the work he and his fellow scientists did to uncover the mysteries of the right and left brainspecifically, split-brain research aimed at discovering whether each hemisphere of the brain could learn independently of the other. Gazzaniga is a charmer. Consequently, this is not a dry scientific tome. On the contrary, the personable Gazzanigahis warmth and good humor virtually jump off the pagerecalls his life as a scientist at Caltech, Dartmouth, Cornell, and other institutions, and the ups and downs that came with it. Some biographical details are surprising. For example, Gazzaniga admits that math doesn't come easy to him and that he usually steers clear of highly technical discussions of almost everything. He is also a bit of a name-dropper. With a foreword by Steven Pinker, Gazzaniga's memoir should delight fans of the television series, The Big Bang Theory, but it will also have tremendous appeal for non-nerds, too.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)

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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.

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