Sublime

right hemisphere sees the whole, before whatever it is gets broken up into parts in our attempt to ‘know’ it. Its holistic processing of visual form is not based on summation of parts.

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 … [It] looks at a flower and names the different parts making up the whole – the petal, stem, stamen, and pollen.’ The right mind, by contrast, ‘creates a master collage of what t

“Why did you make me draw you?” I asked when it was clear that he wanted to hear me ask it. He smiled, as if playing a little game. “For many years I’ve been trying to study the possible links between epilepsy and talent, especially artistic talent. I’ve written a number of articles on the subject. Many great people were epileptics.” “Who were epil

all of our brains have two different visual pathways, like off-ramps, to independently keep track of “where” something is and “what” something is, offers a clue about both brains and the world they do their best to understand.

We are not, one of Adam’s papers proves, wired to see slow, background change, when something bright and colorful is waving in our faces.