Sunday, February 26, 2012

Left-Handed People


The brain organization of left-handed people is often different from that of
right-handed people. This could include a reversed brain organisation or
both brains with both language and spatial abilities. For optimal function-
ing, Ornstein believes that the two major functions of the human mental
system need to stay within the range of equilibrium.25 According to him,
the right brain specializations develop to their fullest when informed by
a fully developed left side. Otherwise we get ‘form without content.’ Both
sides of the brain most likely incorporate the other side into their models of
the world. The left side may model the right as part of its own organisation.
The right side may perceive the left side as partially exterior to the organ-
ism, a complicated region of the environment whose rules the right side will
attempt to acquire. The body and possibly the other side of the brain are
experienced as being the exterior environment and subsequently modeled
as such in the right brain.

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