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Michael corballis biography
Michael Corballis
New Zealand psychologist and author (1936–2021)
Michael Charles CorballisONZM (10 September 1936 – 13 November 2021) was a New Zealand and Canadian[1]psychologist and author.
He was Emeritus Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Auckland. His fields of research were cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience, encompassing visual perception, visual imagery, attention, memory, and the evolution of language.
Early life and family
Corballis was born in the farming district of Marton, New Zealand, in 1936, the eldest of four sons of sheep farmers Philip Patrick Joseph Corballis and Alice Elizabeth Harris. In 1962, Corballis married Barbara Elizabeth Wheeler; they had two sons:[2] Paul, also a cognitive neuroscientist,[3] and Tim, a novelist[4] and academic.[5] Barbara Corballis died in 2020.[6]
Education and career
Corballis received his high-school education as a bo