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CM 223: Chantel Prat on How Every Brain Is Different

Curious Minds at Work

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The Left Hemisphere Is Analytical

One of the things that is an important feature of our brains is their ability to story tell. The idea that our left hemisphere is analytical came out of the work of Roger Sperry and Michael Gazanaga when they were investigating these people who had the two hemispheres of their brain surgically severed. They discovered this part of your brain that is always interpreting the why of what you're doing because it's making inferences like I think I saw the sun but I drew thisWhat must be the plausible reason for this and intact brain might that feel like right? We have all of these implicit automatic habitual ways of behaving that we don't have conscious access to so let's say 70%

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