Michael Graziano (Psychologe)
Michael Steven Anthony Graziano (* 22. Mai 1967 in Bridgeport, Connecticut) ist ein US-amerikanischer Psychologe und Neurowissenschaftler sowie Schriftsteller.
Graziano ist Professor an der Princeton University.
Er studierte an der Princeton University, wo er 1996 promoviert wurde. Auch seine Postdoc-Forschung betrieb er an der Princeton University.
Eines seiner Forschungsgebiete ist das Bewusstsein. Er vertritt die Attention Schema Theory in Konkurrenz zu der Integrierten Informationstheorie.
Schriften (Auswahl)
Bücher
- The Intelligent Movement Machine (2008)
- Cretaceous dawn : a novel / Graziano, Lisa M; Graziano, Michael S. A., (2008)
- God, Soul, Mind, Brain (2010)
- Consciousness and the Social Brain (2013)
- The Spaces Between Us: A Story of Neuroscience, Evolution, and Human Nature (2018)
- Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience (2019)
Aufsätze
- Elizabeth Gould, Alison J. Reeves, Michael S. A. Graziano und Charles G. Gross: Neurogenesis in the Neocortex of Adult Primates. In: Science. Band 286, Nr. 5439, 1999, S. 548–552, doi:10.1126/science.286.5439.54.
- Graziano, M. S. (1999): Where is my arm? The relative role of vision and proprioception in the neuronal representation of limb position. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 96(18), 10418-10421.
- Graziano, M. S., Taylor, C. S., & Moore, T. (2002): Complex movements evoked by microstimulation of precentral cortex. Neuron, 34(5), 841-851.
- Graziano, M. S., Taylor, C. S., Moore, T., & Cooke, D. F. (2002): The cortical control of movement revisited. Neuron, 36(3), 349-362.
- Graziano, M. (2006): The organization of behavioral repertoire in motor cortex. Annu. Rev. Neurosci., 29(1), 105-134.
- Graziano MS, Kastner S: Human consciousness and its relationship to social neuroscience: A novel hypothesis. Cogn Neurosci. 2011 Jan 1;2(2):98-113. doi:10.1080/17588928.2011.565121.
- Graziano MS, Webb TW: The attention schema theory: a mechanistic account of subjective awareness. Front Psychol. 2015 Apr 23;6:500. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00500.
- Graziano, M. S. (2016): Ethological action maps: a paradigm shift for the motor cortex. Trends in cognitive sciences, 20(2), 121-132.
- Strachan, J.W.A., Albergo, D., Borghini, G. et al. [Michael S. A. Graziano]: Testing theory of mind in large language models and humans. Nat Hum Behav 8, 1285–1295 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01882-z