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Bolte Taylor, like Sperry and Gazzaniga, discovered that the hemispheres are like two contrasting personalities within a single mind. The left half, she writes, ‘thrives on details, details, and more details about those details …
Jeremy Lent • The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find our Place in the Universe
Richard J. Haier • The Neuroscience of Intelligence (Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology)
the right hemisphere sees things whole, and in their context, where the left hemisphere sees things abstracted from context, and broken into parts, from which it then reconstructs a ‘whole’: something very different.
Iain McGilchrist • The Master and His Emissary
Our self-experience is the product of the balance between our rational and our emotional brains. When these two systems are in balance, we “feel like ourselves.” However, when our survival is at stake, these systems can function relatively independently.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
If the disorder is less severe, we get three other sorts of splits: (1) between left-brain reasoning and the control of emotions, (2) between left-brain reasoning and the control of behavior, and (3) between left-brain reasoning and the control of sensation.
Don Kerson • Getting Unstuck; Unravelling the Knot of Depression Attention and Trauma
The ability to make decisions and even the ability to evaluate the situation may be compromised. These features are consistent with dissociation.
Stephen W. Porges • The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
part – un état paradoxal, unique aux humains. Des perturbations de ce système, nous allons le voir, peuvent provoquer la dissolution des frontières interpersonnelles, de l’identité personnelle et de l’image corporelle
Vilayanur Ramachandran • Le cerveau fait de l'esprit : Enquête sur les neurones miroirs (Quai des Sciences) (French Edition)
