A Neuroscience Pioneer Reflects

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 17, 2015

Michael Gazzaniga, the director of the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the author of Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience (he's also known as "the father of cognitive neuroscience"), looks back on his career, from his days in the Dartmouth "Animal House" fraternity through his discovery of the "split-brain" and beyond. 

 

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