The Right Mind

by Ornstein, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780151003242
• ISBN10: 0151003246
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-10-01
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Summary

In this "accessible and provocative" book, (Kirkus Reviews), the author of The Psychology of Consciousness cuts through the confusion around the right brain-left brain theory. Black-and-white photographs and illustrations.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix	(4)
A Prefatory Note	xiii
CHAPTER 1 Mastermind or Moron: Samples of a Pandemonium of Ideas	1	(8)
Part I. Of an Avalanche in the Brain	9	(52)
CHAPTER 2 Small Changes, Small Turnings in the Chaotic Evolution of the Double Brain	11	(15)
CHAPTER 3 An Avalanche in the Human Brain	26	(17)
CHAPTER 4 Diocles, Marc Dax, Bob Dylan's Hair and Brain, "Tan Tan," and Other Stepping Stones on the History of Brain Differences	43	(18)
Part II. Text and Context: Our Current Understanding	61	(80)
CHAPTER 5 The Compass of Laterality	63	(17)
CHAPTER 6 Whose Hemispheres Do You Mean?	80	(7)
CHAPTER 7 The Run of Dichotomania	87	(10)
CHAPTER 8 Wit or Half-Wit?	97	(19)
CHAPTER 9 Minds in and out of Context: Speculations on Some Mental Disorders	116	(25)
Part III. The Mechanics and the Music of the 'Spheres: A View to the Future	141	(36)
CHAPTER 10 Making Waves: Furthermost Speculations on a Way the Hemispheres Operate	143	(17)
CHAPTER 11 Restoring Context: Sounding Out Three New Notes	160	(17)
Notes	177	(8)
Selected References	185	(10)
Index	195