Michael Corballis

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Michael Charles Corballis (born June 10, 1936 in Marton ) is a New Zealand-Canadian psychologist and author. Corballis is Professor Emeritus at the University of Auckland's Department of Psychology , New Zealand . His research fields are cognitive brain research, visual perception, attention, memory and the origin of language.

Training and research

Corballis studied mathematics (Master in 1959) and Psychology (Master in 1962) at the University of New Zealand . He received his doctorate in psychology from McGill University in Montreal , where he taught in the Department of Psychology from 1968 to 1978. During this time, he was mainly concerned with cognitive brain research, analyzing complex cognitive systems such as perception, attention and memory. In particular, he researched the differences between the hemispheres of the human brain (cerebral asymmetry). In 1978 he became professor of psychology at the University of Auckland . Of great international importance is his hypothesis that human language arose from signs (shown in his book: "From hand to mouth"). He is quoted very often in this context.

Publications

Books

  • with Ivan L. Beale: Psychology of Left and Right. John Wiley & Sons, 1976.
  • with Ivan L. Beale: The Ambivalent Mind: The Neuropsychology of Left and Right. Nelson-Hall, Chicago 1983.
  • Human Laterality. Academic Press, 1984.
  • The Lopsided Ape: Evolution of the Generative Mind. Oxford University Press, 1991.
  • From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of Language. University Press Group, 2003.
  • The Recursive Mind. Princeton University Press, 2011.
  • A Very Short Tour of the Mind. The Overlook Press, 2013.
  • The Wandering Mind: What the brain does when you're not looking. Auckland University Press, Auckland 2014, ISBN 978-1-86940-811-4 .

Selected journal articles

  • MC Corballis: The evolution and genetics of cerebral asymmetry. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B: Biological Sciences. Volume 364, 2009, pp. 867-879. doi: 10.1098 / rstb.2008.0232
  • J. Lewald, S. Peters, MC Corballis, M. Hausmann: Perception of stationary and moving sound following cortectomy. In: Neuropsychologia. Volume 47, 2009, pp. 962-971. doi: 10.1016 / j.neuropsychologia.2008.10.016
  • B. Milivojevic, JP Hamm, MC Corballis: Functional neuroanatomy of mental rotation. In: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. Volume 21, 2009, pp. 945-959. doi: 10.1162 / jocn.2009.21085
  • MC Corballis: The evolution of language. In: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Volume 1156, 2009, pp. 19-43. doi: 10.1111 / j.1749-6632.2009.04423.x
  • T. Suddendorf, DR Addis, MC Corballis: Mental time travel and the shaping of the human mind. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B: Biological Sciences. Volume 364, 2009, pp. 1317-1324. doi: 10.1098 / rstb.2008.0301

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Overview of Corballis' works cited on Google Scholar
personal data
SURNAME Corballis, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Corballis, Michael C .; Corballis, Michael Charles (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand-Canadian psychologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Marton