Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

And so I have all the possibility of what will be.

And it was wide open.

I wasn't going to be a neuroscientist again because that left hemisphere.

I never held myself to returning to whom I had been before the stroke.

That girl died that day as far as I was concerned.

But the phenomenon was that as I'm a gross anatomist, so I taught cadaver lab.

And when you are teaching, you have a whole body there and you're teaching medical students about what's inside of there.

You get your hands in there and you say, I want you to slip in behind the stomach and I want you to slip this hand in here and I want you to know the relationship between the stomach and the duodenum and the liver and the splenic nerve and the

kidney.

I want you to feel it because I want you to have a three-dimensional image of that inside of your mind so that you can use that information.

Very right-brained.

So when we learn, we learn facts and details with the left brain, but we learn context and big picture with the right brain.

So we have these two very different ways of working it out.

As we're looking at the brain, just from an anatomical perspective,

The way evolution happens for the mammalian brain is that there are creatures who have a spinal cord.

And there are creatures like that, like worms.

And then a little brain, a little medulla, will form at the top of that tissue.

And then now that brain controls and streamlines information processing to the rest of the system.

And then we add a pons.

It's just a structure of cells.