The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World

Disrupting premotor cortex disrupts the perception and understanding of action language, as well as its execution.

They were natural animists.

No patient ever showed embarrassment.

The person with the hemianopia is only too well aware of what he is missing: the left half of the world still exists for him, he just can’t see it easily. He turns his head so as to bring what he wants to see into the right field of vision. But not so with my patient Mike.

care for left hemisphere stroke patients were asked to specify the most important problem encountered, they named difficulty writing or spelling;

And what is the frontal cortex for? Largely for stopping things happening.

called ‘opponent processors’,

But if we (a) know which hemisphere is more trustworthy,

‘It is not incumbent upon you to complete the work’, goes one rabbinical saying, ‘but neither are you at liberty to desist from it.’