FOUNDER OF COGNITIVE RESEARCH TO SPEAK AT YORK COLLEGE
Posted April 3, 2006FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
YORK, Pa. – Michael Gazzaniga, regarded as the founder of the cognitive neuroscience field, will speak at York College, Wednesday, April 19, at 4 p.m. in DeMeester Theater.
Gazzaniga’s most recent book, The Ethical Brain, explores how we arrive at moral and ethical judgments. In The Ethical Brain, Gazzaniga attempts to make the connection from neuroscience to neuroethics and addresses morality issues raised by advances in brain science such as cloning.
Gazzaniga, founder of the Neuroscience Institute and the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, is currently the director of the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also the president of the American Psychological Society and a member of the American Neurological Association.
Gazzaniga’s other notable accomplishments include his work with Nobel Prize winner Roger Sperry on human split-brain research.
His teaching and research career includes Dartmouth College and Medical School, Cornell University Medical College, the State University of New York at Stony Brook and New York University Graduate School.
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