The Real Left Brain, Right Brain Story?

Reviewing Iain McGilchrist’s The Master and His Emissary

Photo by JSKruse

For the last few decades, the popular interpretation of research on human cerebral hemisphere lateralization has cast the left brain as Mr. Spock: logical, rational, adept at math and language, with Captain Kirk embodying the right brain: impulsive, intuitive, emotional, creative. You can take tests…