# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-s-gazzaniga
# Generated: 2026-09-03T11:27:37.678Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-s-gazzaniga"
name: "Michael S. Gazzaniga"
slug: "michael-s-gazzaniga"
description: "Michael Saunders Gazzaniga is an American cognitive neuroscientist and professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the founder and retired director of the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind at UCSB (2006–2023)."
tagline: "American neuroscientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gazzaniga.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1939-12-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump