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The right hemisphere is the locus of interpretation, not only of facial expression, but of prosody (vocal intonation) and gesture.227
Iain McGilchrist • The Master and His Emissary
play has a positive effect on the executive function of the brain.
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Flow requires all of your brainpower, deployed toward one mission.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
We need to do nothing less than reconceive our world, our reality in a way that, far from subordinating the right hemisphere, acknowledges that it alone has access to the world beyond us, ‘out there’. We need to learn again to look, to see. That’s to say, we need to redirect our attention to what-out-there-is-not-us in a way that rebalances the
... See moreIain McGilchrist • The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World
prefrontal cortex. For example, the side of this region is crucial for how we pay attention; it enables us to put things in the “front of our mind” and hold them in awareness. The middle portion of the prefrontal area, the part damaged in Barbara, coordinates an astonishing number of essential skills, including regulating the body, attuning to
... See moreDaniel J. Siegel • Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
Shelley H. Carson, author of Your Creative Brain,