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How Our Brains Model Reality & the True Nature of the World | Iain McGilchrist

Hidden Forces

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Left and Right Brain Versus Left and Right Hand?

The function of the brain is contralateralized in this case. So the left part of the brain uses the right side of the body. In humans, it's slightly different because we have eyes on the front of our heads,. And so it's the left visual field of each eye that goes to the right hemisphere and vice versa. For most people, most right handers at any rate, speech is in the left. There isn't a quick answer in people who are left handers.

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