Michael Gazzaniga

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Michael S. Gazzaniga was born in December 12, 1939 in Los Angeles, California. He got his B.A at Dartmouth College in 1961. As well as, he received his PHD. in Psycho-biology at California Institute of Technology. He worked under the guidance of Roger Sperry. Also, he conducts a research on a brain, which it makes people understand how does the brain work. In spite of, that he was under the guidance, he had a primary responsibility for the Split-brain research. It allows him to make some remarkable advances by examining patients and non-patients brain. Also, by using different methods to prove his point. For example, to clarify the hemisphere functions in the two brains that each have, he used right-handed and left-handed people. So, we can

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