Adventures of a Psychologist

<p>In this enlightening biography award- winning academic psychologist Michael Corballis tells the story of how the field of cognitive psychology evolved and the controversies and anecdotes that occurred along the way. </p><p>Since the Second World War psychology has undergone several scientific movements from behaviourism to cognitive psychology and finally to neuroscience. In this fascinating biography Corballis recounts his career as a researcher who played a part in these monumental changes in psychology. Beginning with his boarding-school education in New Zealand Corballis goes on to recount his PhD studies and behavioural research into mirror-image discriminations in pigeons the uprising of the cognitive revolution amidst 1960s counterculture and his switch to become a cognitive psychologist his research into brain asymmetry and the evolution of language and its origin of manual gestures and the development of mental time travel in animals. </p><p>Featuring stories of prominent scientists who were integral in psychology’s biggest discoveries and insight into the heated debates and controversies in psychology during a time of great scientific and sociocultural change this biography is a must-read for those interested in how psychology became established as a science. </p>