Events Quote by Michael Gazzaniga

“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

“So the left hemisphere needs certainty and needs to be right. The right hemisphere makes it possible to hold several ambiguous possibilities in suspension…

— Iain McGilchrist

The left hemisphere is very interested in language; it communicates in words, it has a past, a present, and a future; it has a…

— Jill Bolte Taylor

“The really interesting finding here, as the authors themselves put it, is that ‘without batting an eye’ the left hemisphere draws mistaken conclusions from…

— Iain McGilchrist

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 left brain is responsible for making order out of chaos, for making sense of things in the world that don't always add up.…

— Daniel Levitin

The left hemisphere acts as an "interpreter," watching the actions and behaviors of the body and assigning a coherent narrative to these events. And…

— David Eagleman

“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

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

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

“I believe that the more we understand about how our hemispheres work together to create our perception of reality, then the more successful we…

— 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

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

— Michio Kaku