The Master and His Emissary : The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (Paperback)

from rabindranath

A psychiatrist explains how our cognitive preferences determined the way our cultures evolved. Classic!

from AlbertoGiuseppe

A marvelous, herculean tome which points in the direction of how and where multidisciplinary studies could and should be heading in cogsci. and elsewhere. Even just the footnotes are a fountain of material, a meta-study in themselves. McGhilchrist's fundamental thesis, that the left hemisphere, (...

from stevetempo

This work is not for everyone, but I give my highest recommendation. If you have ever had an interest in the brain, consciousness, or how we all perceive and engage the world, this might your cup of tea. Iain McGilchrist does an incredible job with developing our current understanding of the brai...

from willszal

I'm amazed that I didn't learn of this book sooner! It came out in 2009, and I just got around to it in 2022. I picked it up because I was reading McGilchrist's new text, "The Matter with Things," and he said it picked up where his last book left off, so I thought it a good idea to pick up this e...

from teunduynstee

This is book is on a fascinating subject. Why is our brain split in two halves and how is it that when the corpus callosum (that joins the parts) is cut, patients can still function more or less normally? Are the two halves like separate personas that have to work together to form our mind. McGil...