Michael Corballis is an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His PhD is from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where he taught for some years before returning to New Zealand in 1978. He has published widely in human cognition and cognitive neuroscience, including brain asymmetry, memory, perception, and language. His most recent books are The Wandering Mind (2014) and The Truth About Language (2017). In 2016 he was awarded the Rutherford Medal, the premier scientific award of the Royal Society of New Zealand.