PSYCHOLOGIST

Michael Gazzaniga

1939 - Today

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Michael S. Gazzaniga (born December 12, 1939) is an American psychologist who is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he heads the new SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind. He is one of the leading researchers in cognitive neuroscience, the study of the neural basis of mind. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Gazzaniga has received more than 307,319 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Michael Gazzaniga is the 177th most popular psychologist (down from 161st in 2019), the 4,148th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,616th in 2019) and the 61st most popular American Psychologist.

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  • 52.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Michael Gazzaniga ranks 177 out of 235. Before her are Edgar Schein, Dimitri Uznadze, James Hillman, Brenda Milner, Raymond Moody, and Boris Cyrulnik. After her are Jean Laplanche, Henri Nouwen, Jacques-Alain Miller, Robert D. Hare, Louis Leon Thurstone, and Lewis Terman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Michael Gazzaniga ranks 242. Before her are Sandro Salvadore, Ali Mahdi Muhammad, Igor Chislenko, Marek Janowski, Phil Read, and Veniamin Soldatenko. After her are Yury Glazkov, Vladimir Ivashov, John Pilger, Charles Jencks, Peter Mayle, and Patrick Wayne.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Michael Gazzaniga ranks 4,148 out of 20,380. Before her are Lucian Pulvermacher (1918), Gregory Benford (1941), Alan Sokal (1955), Nick Cravat (1912), Milt Jackson (1923), and John Henry Schwarz (1941). After her are Thomas Sowell (1930), Kenny Roberts (1951), Merce Cunningham (1919), Nancy Meyers (1949), Alice Brady (1892), and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (1909).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Michael Gazzaniga ranks 61. Before her are Arthur Janov (1924), Arnold Gesell (1880), Stanley Schachter (1922), Benjamin Libet (1916), James Hillman (1926), and Raymond Moody (1944). After her are Louis Leon Thurstone (1887), Lewis Terman (1877), Gustave Gilbert (1911), Sandra Bem (1944), Michael Tomasello (1950), and John C. Lilly (1915).

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