{"product_id":"2940170325030","title":"Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichael S. Gazzaniga, \"the father of cognitive neuroscience,\" gives us an exciting behind-the-scenes look at his seminal work on the enigmatic coupling of the right and left brain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the mid-twentieth century, Michael S. Gazzaniga made one of the great discoveries in the history of neuroscience: split-brain theory, the notion that the right and left hemispheres of the brain can act independently from each other and have different strengths. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eTales from Both Sides of the Brain\u003c\/em\u003e, Gazzaniga tells the story of his passionate, entrepreneurial life in science and his decades-long journey to understand how the separate spheres of our brains communicate and miscommunicate their separate agendas. From his time as an ambitious undergraduate at Dartmouth, as a member of its now famed \"Animal House\" fraternity, and his life as a diligent graduate student in California to the first experiments he conducted in his own lab; from meeting his first split-brain patients to his collaboration with esteemed intellectuals across disciplines, Gazzaniga recounts the trajectory of his discoveries. In his engaging and accessible style, he paints a vivid portrait not only of his discovery of split-brain theory, but also of his comrades in arms-the many patients, friends, and family members who have accompanied him on this wild ride of intellectual discovery. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy turns humorous and moving, \u003cem\u003eTales from Both Sides of the Brain\u003c\/em\u003e uses an extraordinary discovery about the nature of human consciousness to tell an enthralling story of how science gets done.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47150625456368,"sku":"2940170325030","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170325030_p0.jpg?v=1763708158","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170325030","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}