Brain Quote by Jill Bolte Taylor

“hemisphere dominates for speech, writing, mathematical ability, logic and analysis. The right hemisphere dominates for perception, spatial ability, musical and artistic abilities, imagery and…

— Open University

Now I realize, and I acknowledge, that the right brain/left brain distinction is a tremendous oversimplification. We don't come neatly divided into right and…

— Darold Treffert

What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in…

— Daniel H. Pink

“The right hemisphere controls sensory attention and body image; the left hemisphere controls skilled movements and some aspects of language.”

— Michio Kaku

“In Western languages, reading and writing involve turning from left to right, and therefore exercise the brain’s left hemisphere. Written language, invented by the…

— Daniel H. Pink

“As Gazzaniga put it, "these findings all suggest that the interpretive mechanism of the left hemisphere is always hard at work, seeking the meaning…

— David Eagleman

“Via our left hemisphere language centers, our mind speaks to us constantly, a phenomenon I refer to as “brain chatter.” It is that voice…

— Jill Bolte Taylor

Our right hemisphere, it thinks in pictures and it learns kinesthetically through the movement of our bodies. Information ... explodes into this enormous collage…

— Jill Bolte Taylor

When the brain is whole, the unified consciousness of the left and right hemispheres adds up to more than the individual properties of the…

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

“Language enables the left hemisphere to represent the world ‘off-line’, a conceptual version, distinct from the world of experience, and shielded from the immediate…

— Iain McGilchrist

The interpretive mechanism of the left celebral hemisphere is always hard at work, seeking the meaning of events. It is constantly looking for order…

— Michael Gazzaniga

What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

— Roger Wolcott Sperry