Michael Gazzaniga is the director of the SAGE Center for the Study
of Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received
his PhD from the California Institute of Technology, where he
worked with Roger Sperry and had primary responsibility for
initiating human split-brain research. He has established Centers
for Cognitive Neuroscience at Cornell Medical School; the
University of California, Davis; and Dartmouth College. He is
founder of the Cognitive Neuroscience Institute and founding editor
of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. He was a member of the
President's Council on Bioethics from 2001 to 2009. He is a member
of the American Academy of Arts and Science, the Institute of
Medicine, and the National Academy of Sciences. Richard B. Ivry is
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of
California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from the University of
Oregon. 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 is Professor of Psychology and Neurology in the
Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego.
He was the founding director of the Center for Mind and Brain, and
also of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University.
In 1992, with Michael S. Gazzaniga and others, he founded the
Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Dr. Mangun serves as an associate
editor for the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, and is
Editor-in-Chief of the series The Neuroscience of Attention,
published by Oxford University Press. He uses cognitive
neuroscience tools in the study of brain attention mechanisms. He
is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, and the
American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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