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PSYCHOLOGIST

Michael Gazzaniga

1939 - Today

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Michael S. Gazzaniga (born December 12, 1939) is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the USA, 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 291,939 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Michael Gazzaniga is the 161st most popular psychologist (down from 159th in 2019), the 3,626th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,841st in 2019) and the 58th most popular American Psychologist.

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  • 21

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  • 6.01

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  • 2.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Michael Gazzaniga ranks 161 out of 183Before her are Gustave Gilbert, James Hillman, Helene Deutsch, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Charlotte Bühler, and Alexander Bain. After her are Jean Laplanche, Emma Eckstein, Arthur Janov, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Elizabeth Loftus, and Georgi Lozanov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Michael Gazzaniga ranks 201Before her are R. Budd Dwyer, Joachim Yhombi-Opango, Susannah York, Peppino di Capri, Rosanna Schiaffino, and Branko Kostić. After her are Harold E. Varmus, Alfredo Palacio, Elena Obraztsova, Giorgio Gaber, Panajot Pano, and James Burton.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Michael Gazzaniga ranks 3,626 out of 18,182Before her are James Edward Keeler (1857), Charles Robert Jenkins (1940), Don Nelson (1940), R. A. Salvatore (1959), Gore Verbinski (1964), and Michael Jai White (1967). After her are Crawford Long (1815), John Mearsheimer (1947), David Blaine (1973), Gil Amelio (1943), John Lloyd Stephens (1805), and Henry Kuttner (1915).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Michael Gazzaniga ranks 58Before her are James J. Gibson (1904), Rensis Likert (1903), Julian Rotter (1916), Brian Weiss (1944), Gustave Gilbert (1911), and James Hillman (1926). After her are Arthur Janov (1924), Elizabeth Loftus (1944), John C. Lilly (1915), Lewis Terman (1877), Michael Tomasello (1950), and Jonathan Haidt (1963).