THE RIGHT MIND
Making Sense of the Hemispheres
Robert Ornstein
Harcourt Brace, 1997
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: After reading this book, the reader should be familiar with many of the findings from the past 25 years of cerebral asymmetry research.
Robert Ornstein's THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS began discussion of the two sides of the brain 30 years ago. In THE RIGHT MIND, he examines changes in the field in the ensuing time. He argues that facts, details, what he calls 'text,' are processed in the left hemisphere, while the right mind of the right hemisphere sets the context, and makes sense of it all. Looking at research in anthropology, linguistics, and animals, this new synthesis relates asymmetry to the dawn of written language, as well as to left-right differences in very primitive animals.
Robert Ornstein, Ph.D., President of the Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge, is the author of 20 books on mind, brain, and health including THE EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS, MULTIMIND, NEW WORLD NEW MIND, THE HEALING BRAIN, and THE ROOTS OF THE SELF.
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