The Hemispheric Brain
Ian McGilchrist discusses his new book The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World in an NPR broadcast: https://www.npr.org/2019/02/01/690656459/one-head-two-brains-how-the-brains-hemispheres-shape-the-world-we-see
Thanks to Jake Wood for sharing this story!
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