Michael C. Corballis was born in 1936 in New Zealand. He is a psychologist and author. Corballis earned a Master's degree in Mathematics at the University of New Zealand in 1959 and attained a Master of Arts in psychology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 1962. He then moved to McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where he gained a PhD in psychology in 1965,[citation needed] and taught in the Department of Psychology from 1968 to 1978. During his years as a professor at McGill, the main focus of his research was in cognitive neuroscience. He was appointed professor of psychology at the University of Auckland in 1978. His titles include Psychology of Left and Right , The Ambivalent Mind: The Neuropsychology of Left and Right, A Very Short Tour of the Mind, and The Wandering Mind: What the Brain Does When You're Not Looking. He was shortlisted for the 2015 Royal Society of New Zealand Science Book Prize.