"What this says to me is that perception is the deepest mystery. How do we convert thousands or millions of tiny signals into the illusion of seeing just one thing?" https://t.co/3KWY5UJxSF

Why does it matter if one hemisphere tends to see things in their context, while the other as carefully removes them from it? One of the more durable generalisations about the hemispheres has been the finding that the left hemisphere tends to deal more with pieces of information in isolation, and the right hemisphere with the entity as a whole, the

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In “Thinking in Pictures,” Grandin suggested that the world was divided between visual and verbal thinkers. “Visual Thinking” gently revises the idea, identifying a continuum of thought styles that’s roughly divisible into three sections. On one end are verbal thinkers, who often solve problems by talking about them in their heads or, more generall... See more