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Three leading figures in the field of cognitive neuroscience provide an engaging, narrative driven overview of this path-breaking field.
More Reviews and RecommendationsMichael Gazzaniga (Ph.D., California Institute of Technology) is the David T. McLaughlin Distinguished Professor at Dartmouth
College and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He founded and presides over the Cognitive Neuroscience Institute
and is founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. He is president of the American Psychological Society and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science. Professor Gazzaniga's research focuses on split-brain patients. He has held positions at the University of California, Santa Barbara; New York University; the State University of New York, Stony Brook; Cornell University Medical College; and the University of California, Davis.
Richard B. Ivry, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and Director of the Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 1986. His research focuses on the relationship of cognition and action, using the many methods of cognitive neuroscience. Dr. Ivry is a senior editor for the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience and serves on the editorial boards of a number of other journals. Among his many honors, Dr. Ivry received the Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences in 1997, and was elected a fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists in 2003 and the Association for Psychological Science in 2006.
George R. Mangun, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Neurology and Director of the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis. He received his Ph.D. inneuroscience from the University of California, San Diego, in 1987, and has taught at Dartmouth Medical School and Duke University. In 1992, with Michael S. Gazzaniga and others, he founded the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Dr. Mangun serves as a senior editor for the journals the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience and Brain Research. He uses cognitive neuroscience tools in the study of attention. His honors include the Distinguished Early Career Contributions Award from the Society for Psychophysiological Research in 1993, a Distinguished Scientist Lecturer Award from the American Psychological Association in 1999, and a James McKeen Cattell Fund Fellowship Award from the Association for Psychological Science in 2006. In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the Association of Psychological Science.