The Divided Brain

RSA, 2011

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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.

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In the 1960s, after the “first split-brain operations,” a number of misconceptions circulated. People believed that only the brain’s left hemisphere controlled language and reason, and that only the right governed images and emotion. These strict binaries are false: Both sides of the brain take part in these activities. However, the brain is indeed “profoundly divided.” It’s also wider at the left rear and right front, which suggests that parts of each hemisphere do “rather different things.” Birds and other animals have divided brains, too. They use the left hemisphere to perform a focused, known task, like picking seeds out of pebbles. They use the right hemisphere for less known, general tasks – ...

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

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