Award News - Author Michael Gazzaniga wins Humboldt Research Prize

Congratulations to Michael Gazzaniga, who has won a prestigious Humboldt Research Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany. This prize is granted to internationally renowned academics whose fundamental discoveries, new theories, or insights have had a significant impact on their own discipline and who are expected to continue producing cutting-edge achievements in the future.
Gazzaniga is a professor of psychology and the director of the SAGE Center for the Study of Mind at the University of California Santa Barbara, where he oversees a research program investigating how the brain enables the mind. He also is the principal investigator of the Law and Neuroscience Project, "the first systematic effort to bridge the fields of law and science in considering how courts should deal with new brain-scanning techniques as they apply to matters of law." He is the editor of The Cognitive Neurosciences, now in its third edition and considered to be the definitive text in the field of cognitive science.
To find out more about Gazzaniga and this award, read more in this press release from UCSB.