I have long admired the work of British psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist for his insights into the endless enigma of the human brain. His book, The Master and His Emissary, a compendium of research and commentary on left-brain and right-brain, has long been a leader in the field.
McGilchrist’s fast-moving, brilliant, animated lecture is simultaneously deeply informative and great fun to watch, as it unspools at a breakneck pace.
I urge you to take 10 minutes to enjoy this wonderful animation: Iain McGilchrist: Our Divided Brains. You won't regret it!
~ Betty Edwards
Summary of the video: The notion that the brain’s right hemisphere is responsible for emotion and its left hemisphere is responsible for reason has been debunked. But the two hemispheres are indeed distinct, albeit in much more complex ways than we once thought. Animated by the company Cognitive Media, with audio excerpted from a lecture given at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) by the British psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist, "The Divided Brain" takes a deep dive into the real differences between our two brain hemispheres.