Contemporary neuroscience humanizes
A look at cortical bilateral asymmetry and how it got that way
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19430673 |
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| Authors | Patrick M Whitehead (0000-0001-9971-2101, University of West Georgia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 121-136 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Humanistic Psychologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0887-3267 • E-ISSN: 1547-3333 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08873267.2013.825804 |
| OpenAlex | W1990908127 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
Exciting research that has surfaced from a host of neuroscience laboratories is presented, and the assumption that they have little to offer human science considered. This includes the sensory substitution work of Bach-y-Rita (1967), as well as the phantom pain hypothesis of Ramachandran (2011). These studies are considered atop the theoretical and meta-analytical work in the field of neuropsychiatry by McGilchrist (2009). McGilchrist's inquiry into split-brain patients has resuscitated the once-dubious debate regarding hemispheric differences in the brain. By considering the latter in light of the evidence of neuroplasticity, global differences in right- or left-brain preference may be understood as analogous and reciprocally influential to patterns of thinking. This dynamic relationship between experience and the brain requires a reconsideration of the status of neuroscience as an exclusively reductive enterprise. Indeed, the laboratories seem to be producing results that have become increasingly diffic
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Neurophenomenology · Neuroplasticity · Neuropsychiatry · Preference · Action Observation and Synchronization · Cognitive Neuroscience · Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Psychology · Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction
| Highly cited | No |
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