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Our culture neglects the “nonverbal intellect”

ByKim Hermanson

“The main theme to emerge…is that there appears to be two modes of thinking, verbal and nonverbal, represented rather separately in left and right hemispheres, respectively, and that our educational system, as well as science in general, tends to neglect the nonverbal form of intellect. What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.”

Roger Sperry, 1973
“Lateral Specialization of Cerebral Function in the Surgically Separated Hemispheres”

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