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The Divided Brain
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The Divided Brain

RSA, 2011

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Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Innovative
  • Scientific
  • Engaging

Recommendation

Psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist offers a lucid, well-informed talk on the nature of the divided brain. This cleverly animated though busy video by the RSA serves both to entertain and to underscore McGilchrist’s key points. getAbstract suggests that reflective individuals inquiring into the nature of the mind would enjoy this talk.

Take-Aways

  • Animals, including humans, have brains that are divided into left and right hemispheres.
  • The belief that only the left hemisphere governs language and reason and that only the right hemisphere controls images and emotion is a fallacy.
  • Yet the hemispheres do have discrete functions: The left focuses on the specific, known, abstract, fixed and categorical. The right focuses on the living, connected, embodied, unknown and general.

About the Speaker

Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist and author of The Master and His Emissary.


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