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

A renowned neuroscientist presents a behind-the-scenes look at his seminal work on that unlikely couple, the right and left brain.

With a 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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