Gazzaniga to Speak About "The Mind's Past" Friday, February 5

Michael Gazzaniga, director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth College, will speak about "The Mind's Past" at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 5, in McConnell Auditorium.

Gazzaniga, is the author of many books and articles on cognitive neuroscience, which explores how the underlying biology of the brain enables the complex processes of the mind: perception, language, memory, attention, feeling and spatial skills.

Educated at Dartmouth and the California Institute of Technology, Gazzaniga has held teaching and research appointments at the University of California/Davis, the University of California/Berkeley, Cornell Medical College and New York University Graduate School. He has served as consultant for PBS on "The Brain and the Mind" series the Time-Life Books "The Brain" series, and WGBH Boston History of Science Program.

Gazzaniga's talk is free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible.