Ian McGilchrist
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553 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2010
last heard Jan 2011
Ian McGilchrist’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yes, that's right.
Because I think attention is a very interesting thing.
It doesn't sound like it just sounds like another function of the brain.
But in fact attention is a remarkable thing.
It's a
The nature of attention.
Determines what it is we find.
And equally what we find determines the appropriate kind of attention to pay to it.
So there's a reciprocal process.
Yeah, well we do know from lesion studies from every kind of neuropsychological information that the left hemisphere tends to adopt.
A narrowly focused attention which does
bring into focus a very, very small part of the world and we need that in order to be able to grasp things.
The left hemisphere is not for no reason the the hemisphere that controls for most of us the right hand with which we grasp things.
and the bits of language which make things precise, whereby we say we we grasp something.
So it's it's about that precision and in in birds and in animals.
The left hemisphere focuses on prey or on something that is there to be eaten.
And the right hemisphere at the same time is keeping a sort of broad open attention for predators.
And we know also that animals and birds use their right hemisphere for social interaction, not just of course with foes, but also with kin, with conspecifics.
So one of them is a sort of uncommitted and relational
mode in which one is looking at the the world in a broad sense for whatever it may contain.
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