Research Catalog

Title

The right mind : making sense of the hemispheres / Robert Ornstein.

Author

Ornstein, Robert E. (Robert Evan), 1942-

Publication

New York : Harcourt Brace, [1997], ©1997.

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Details

Description

xi, 200 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

• A psychologist and writer who began the conversation about the differing roles of the right and left hemispheres in his best-selling The Psychology of Consciousness twenty-five years ago, Ornstein has in his books and lectures provided a running commentary on the significance of what we are learning about the brain. Now the time has come for a new synthesis: The Right Mind. It is short but rich in its detail, light-hearted but profound in its conclusions.
• A central argument of The Right Mind is that while facts (what we might think of as text) are stored and processed in the left hemisphere, the right mind sets the context and makes sense of it all. And so it is with this book. Ornstein has incorporated the important facts and then set the whole thing in context.

Subject

• Left and right (Psychology)
• Left and right (Psychology) > History
• Laterality
• Cerebral hemispheres

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-194) and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Mastermind or Moron: Samples of a Pandemonium of Ideas -- Pt. I. Of an Avalanche in the Brain. Ch. 2. Small Changes, Small Turnings in the Chaotic Evolution of the Double Brain. Ch. 3. An Avalanche in the Human Brain. Ch. 4. Diocles, Marc Dax, Bob Dylan's Hair and Brain, "Tan Tan," and Other Stepping Stones on the History of Brain Differences -- Pt. II. Text and Context: Our Current Understanding. Ch. 5. The Compass of Laterality. Ch. 6. Whose Hemispheres Do You Mean? Ch. 7. The Run of Dichotomania. Ch. 8. Wit or Half-Wit? Ch. 9. Minds in and out of Context: Speculations on Some Mental Disorders -- Pt. III. The Mechanics and the Music of the 'Spheres: A View to the Future -- Ch. 10. Making Waves: Furthermost Speculations on a Way the Hemispheres Operate. Ch. 11. Restoring Context: Sounding Out Three New Notes.

ISBN

0151003246

LCCN

97021659

OCLC

ocm36930774

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries