Hemisphere Quote by Roger Wolcott Sperry

“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

“Although the statistics vary depending upon whom you ask, virtually everyone who is right handed (over 85% of the U.S. population) is left hemisphere…

— Jill Bolte Taylor

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

“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

“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

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 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

“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

You have only two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your…

— Bill Lee

There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.

— David Antin

Sometimes they say the world rotates a little different for lefthanders.

— Joe Torre

Every neurotic is partly in the right.

— Alfred Adler