Gazzaniga

Michael Gazzaniga of the University of California at Santa Barbara and the chair of this inquiry, describes its findings: "There is growing evidence that learning of the arts -- whether it be music, dance, drama, painting -- has a positive impact on cognitive life."

Ellen Galinsky: Ask the Students: Their Wise Wishes for Improving Education Ellen Galinsky 2011

Gazzaniga says, "An interest in a performing art leads to a high state of motivation that produces the sustained attention necessary to improve performance and the training of attention that leads to improvement in other domains of cognition."

Ellen Galinsky: Ask the Students: Their Wise Wishes for Improving Education Ellen Galinsky 2011

"Responsibility" or lack of it, Mr. Gazzaniga says, "is not located in the brain."

Rethinking Thinking Raymond Tallis 2011

Gazzaniga says, "An interest in a performing art leads to a high state of motivation that produces the sustained attention necessary to improve performance and the training of attention that leads to improvement in other domains of cognition."

Ellen Galinsky: Ask the Students: Their Wise Wishes for Improving Education Ellen Galinsky 2011

Roger Sperry and Michael Gazzaniga have carried out a fascinating set of experiments on split-brain patients that demonstrates this.

World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011

Neuro-law is not merely premature; it overlooks the fact that, as Mr. Gazzaniga says, "we are people, not brains," and brain scans tell us little about our personhood.

Rethinking Thinking Raymond Tallis 2011

Mr. Gazzaniga will have none of this, and he deplores "neuroscience oozing into the courtroom."

Rethinking Thinking Raymond Tallis 2011

Mr. Gazzaniga is a towering figure in contemporary neurobiology.

Rethinking Thinking Raymond Tallis 2011

Unlike many in his profession, Mr. Gazzaniga is philosophically sophisticated.

Rethinking Thinking Raymond Tallis 2011

In his book The Bisected Brain Michael Gazzaniga wrote that splitting the hemispheres “produces two separate, but equal, cognitive systems each with its own abilities to learn, emote, think, and act.”

World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011