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The Divided BrainThe Making of the Western World

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Content

Iain McGilchrist's Book False Assumptions

Keeping Things Apart The Animal Brain How Does OUR Brain Work?

Left versus Right Modern Paradoxes Reception of the Book

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Iain Mc Gilchrist's Book

The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brainand the Making of the Western World

Central Thrust Of the Work

A World of Difference Between the Brain Hemispheres

How the Brain Has Shaped Our World

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False Assumptions

One part of the brain does reason;

the other part does emotion.

Language resides only in the left hemisphere.

Visual imagery is in the right hemisphere.

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Keeping Things Apart

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The Animal Brain

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How Does OUR Brain Work?

The Right Hemisphere sustained broad

open vigilant

The Left Hemisphere

narrow sharp focused

allertness

attention

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Left versus Right

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Modern Paradoxes

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Reception

"A dazzling masterpiece, hugely ambitiousand the most comprehensive, profoundbook ever written on brain laterality."

The Globe And Mail

"Fascinating, groundbreaking, relentlesslyresearch and eloquently written."

The Los Angeles Review of Books

Iain McGilchrist