Michael Gazzaniga Professions : Professor Born : December 12, 1939 Browse All Authors Top 6 quotes by Michael Gazzaniga The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows how. Michael Gazzaniga adaptation nervous brain While there have been great technological advances in the study of the brain, yielding enormous amounts of data on its physical and psychological characteristics, the old problem of relating mind to brain in a reasonable fashion remains unaccomplished. Michael Gazzaniga data fashion brain Don't leave home without your left hemisphere Michael Gazzaniga hemisphere left home Experiments on split-brain patients reveal how readily the left brain interpreter can make up stories and beliefs. In one experiment, for example, when the word walk was presented only to the right side of a patient's brain, he got up and started walking. When he was asked why he did this, the left brain (where language is stored and where the word walk was not presented) quickly created a reason for the action: I wanted to go get a Coke. Michael Gazzaniga splits brain religion The interpretive mechanism of the left celebral hemisphere is always hard at work, seeking the meaning of events. It is constantly looking for order and reason, even when there is none - which leads it continually to make mistakes. Michael Gazzaniga events mistake order The arts are not frosting but baking soda. Michael Gazzaniga baking-soda soda art Similar Authors Bryan Stevenson professor Bruce Greenwald professor Bruce Ames professor Brian Wansink professor Brian Schmidt professor Brian Martin professor All Authors
