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Declassified and Approved For Release 2014/01/09 : CIA-RDP79-00999A000200010094-2 1 ₾ The New York Times Magazine/September 9,1973 1 Two astonishingly different persons inhabit our heads We are left-brained or right-brained By Maya Pines Two very different persons inhabit our heads, residing in the left and right hemispheres of our .brains, the twin shells that cover the central brain stem. One of them is verbal, analytic, dominant. The other is artistic' but mute, and still almost totally mysterious. This nonspeaking side of the human brain-the right hemisphere-is now the focus of intensive research by brain scientists. . This sudden surge of interest is probably no accident at a time when Yoga, Arica, Tibetan exercises and other nonverbal disciplines are enjoying such a vogue. Some re- searchers are eager to give the less intellectual aspects of human personality equal weight with the verbal ones. But beyond this somewhat parti- san approach lies the startling hypothesis that each of us is capable of two incompatible styles of thought. two separate mechanisins for learning. In normal people. the two half-brains are linked together, like Siamese twins, by millions of nerve fibers that form a thick cable called the corpus callosum. if this cable is cut, as must be done in certain cases of severe epilepsy, a curious set of circumstances occurs. The left side of the brain no longer knows what the right side is doing. ye: the speaking half of the patient, controlled by the left hemisphere, still insists on finding excuses for whatever the nuite half has done, and still operates under the illusion that they are one person. The findings of the past decade are extraordi- nary in their implications. Because of them, brain scientists have begun to wonder whether our nor- mal feeling of being just one person is also an il. lusion, even though our brains remain whole. A.c the two halves of our trains integrated into a . single soul? Is one hemisphere always dominant over the other? Or do the two persons in our brains take turns at directing our activities and thoughts? Theologians are watching this research with 'fascination-and some misgivings and they are not alone. It has aroused the interest of many others who are concerned with human identity. As they soon realize, all roads lead to Dr. Roger Sperry. u California Institute of Technology pro- fessor of psychobiology who has the gift of mak- ing-or provoking-important discoveries. Sperry was already famous before he began studying people and animals whose brains had been split in two. In a series of elegant experi- ments, 'he had shown that there exists a very precise chemical coding system during brain growth that allows specific nerve cells-for ex- Maya Pines is author of "The Brain Changers; Scientists and the New Mind Control." This article is adapted from a chapter of that book, which will be published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich late next month. ample, those concerned with vision-to find their way through a tangle of other nerve fibers, even when obstacles are placed in their path, and some- how connect with the appropriate cells so as to reach specific terminals in the visual cortex. Next, he began to study visual perception and memory. He wanted to find out what happened when an animel learned certain discriminations that involved the visual cortex-when it learned. for instance, to push a panel marked with a circle rather than a square. Where in its brain was that knowledge stored? He put the question to a young graduate stu- dent, suggesting that he investigate how cats that between a circle and a square, knowing that the information they acquired would go to only one hemisphere. When he switched their eye patches to cover their trained eyes, however, the cats per- formed just as well as before. Their memory of this skill was intact. This meant either that the knowledge was stored in the central brain stem, well below the twin hemispheres, or that the knowledge acquired by one hemisphere had some. how been transmitted to the other. "Obviously the corpus callosum was the next thing to test." recalls Dr. Myers, "But from the available evidence, cutting it would have no effect. If the surgery is properly done, the animals are Split-brain problem: A patient whose brain has been surgically divided feels the outline of the figure 3 with his left hand, perceiving it with his right half-brain. Knowledge of it is not transferred to his left half.brain, which controls his right hand. Asked to indicate the number he has grasped, he does so incor- rectly with his right hand. have learned a new skill with only one eye and one hemisphere transfer this information to the other eye. The young student, Ronald Myers (now chief of the Laboratory of Perinatal Physiology at the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke), worked with this idea for the next six years. First he developed a method of cutting through the cats' optic chiasm (the point at which the optic nerves meet and cross) so as to sever the nerve fibers that normally cross from left eye to right hemisphere and vice versa, sparing only those that connect with the same side of the brain. Despite the surgery, the cats saw quite well. Myers then placed a patch over one of their eyes and trained the one-eyed creatures to distinguish up the next day and you see nothing." By all outward appearances, a split-brain cat or monkey is perfectly normal; It can run, eat, mate, solve problems as if nothing had happened to It. When surgeons first split the brain of a human being in the nineteen-thirties (to remove a tumor deep in the brain). they did so with much trepidation, cx- pecting a terrible change in their patient, a total deterioration of his psyche. To their amazement. they saw no change at all. The corpus callosum seemed to serve no purpose, despite its large size (it is about 316 inches long and a quarter of an inch thick in humans). "What is the function of the corpus callosum?" professors would ask their students in the nineteen-forties; as no one knew. 32 Declassified and Approved For Release 2014/01/09 : CIA-RDP79-00999A000200010094-2 i , . 1 tions one's symn sager spinri side colls repro · at bit the 1 satio instr W fixed of the in its have they seizur recent Lushic the h New stcp i the c callos hemis this e there as if They twoen as the the q collos from of fih munic cortes separ Ing s their found cvide ways, had t In unim brain cnsc mals. haff recog left-h which us fr how from child usual
Declassified and Approved For Release 2014/01/09 : CIA-RDP79-00999A000200010094-2 -- they replied facetiously, "It transmits epileptic seizures from one hemisphere to the other." As recently as 1951, the famed neuropsychologist Karl Lashley saw only one other use for it: "To keep the hemispheres from sagging." Nevertheless, Myers proceeded with the next step in the research plan. After cutting through the cats' optic chiasms, he split their corpora callosa as well, separating their left and right hemispheres. Then he trained them as before, with one eye covered. When he removed the cover from this eye and placed it over the other eye, however, there was a dramatic change: The cats reacted as if they had never seen the patterns before. They took just as long to learn the difference be- tween a circle and a square with the second eye as they had with the first. Myers was elated, and the question was finally settled: It was the corpus callosum that transmitted memories and learning from one hemisphere to the other. The thick band of fibers stood revealed as the sole means of com- munication between the two halves of the cerebral cortex. Without it, cats could be trained quite separately with each eye. When Myers tried teach- ing some split-brain cats to select the circle with their left eyes and the square with their right, he found that they learned this without the slightest evidence of conflict. They would act in opposite ways, according to which eye was open-as if they had two entirely separate brains. In animals, a split brain may prove relatively unimportant, for the left and right halves of their brains do exactly the same job. But this is not the case for human beings. Alone among the mam- mals, man has developed different uses for each half of his brain. This asymmetry, which we all recognize when we say whether we're right- or left-handed, is the glorious mechanism through which man is able to speak. It is what separates us from the apes. There are various theories about how it developed and whether it is present right from birth, but it is quite clear that by the time a child reaches the age of 10, one hemisphere --- usually the left-has taken over the task of language. ------ For simpler operations, such as receiving sensa- tions from one's hand or ordering movements to one's foot, the human brain remains generally symmetrical. The nerve impulses that carry mes- sages from one side of the body travel up the spinal column and cross over into the opposite side of the brain, there to stimulate predetermined cells to form a sort of map of the parts they represent. The nerve connections involved are set at birth in an incredibly precise fashion that allows the brain to know instantly where certain sen- sations come from and where to aim specific instructions. When tasks become more complex, however, this fixed plan is abandoned. Then the association areas of the brain come into play, and each one develops in its own way, according to experience. Since we have only one mouth (unlike the dolphin, which has (Continued on Page 121) Center of visual field Right visual field : Left hemisphere : Optic ( nerves : Optic nerves : Artistic. musical ability; spatial perception Language and analytic abilities 2. Visual area of cortex Visual area of cortex Corpus callosum Lazio Kubinyl Two views of the world: Objects in the left visual field are perceived in the brain's right hemisphere and objects in the right visual field are perceived in the left. Normally, the corpus callosum is intact and perceptions transfer through it from one hemisphere to the other. When the corpus is cut, as above, perception is divided. For example, one patient with such a split brain found he could read only words that appeared in the right visual field, since literacy is a function of the left hemisphere. THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE/SEPTEMBER 9, 1973 33 Declassified and Approved For Release 2014/01/09 : CIA-RDP79-00999A000200010094-2 the one ches per- y of the tem, the me- next the fect. are ---- re 3 ieft cor- all key olve Then g in > in ex- otal ent, sum size : an of heir ew, .- .- Left visual field Right hemisphere
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separate phonation mechan-
isms on the right and left
sides of its body), there is no
need for right and left speech
mechanisms. In most adults,
therefore, the speech centers
are limited to one side of the
brain, usually the left, though
about 15 per cent of left-
handers and perhaps 2 per
cent of right-handers have
speech on both sides.
Being left-handed-an in-
herited trait-generally means
that the two sides of one's
brain have not become as
fully specialized as among
right-handers. The 10 per cent
of the population who are
left-handed in childhood tend
to be ambidextrous, and ac-
cording to some recent re-
search by the University of
Pennsylvania's Dr. Jerre Levy,
they often score much lower
on tests of perceptual or
motor ability. Furthermore,
there are two kinds of left-
handers: those whose lan-
guage is controlled by the
right hemisphere (less than
half of the total), and those
in whom the left hemisphere
controls speech, just as in
right-handers.
This makes the left side of
the brain largely dominant for
language in human beings-
a near-monopoly that was
recognized in the early 18th
century, when surgeons ex-
amined the brains of people
who had lost the power of
speech and found severe dam-
age on the left side. Why this
should be so preordained is
not clear. The left hemisphere
tends to become dominant in
other ways as well. For ex-
ample, it controls the right
hand, which does most of
man's skilled work with tools.
Around the age of 1, notes
psychologist Jerome Bruner,
babies suddenly master what
he calls "the two-handed ob-
stacle box," a simple puzzle
developed by Harvard's Cen-
ter for Cognitive Studies to
study how babies learn the
value of two-handedness. The
baby will learn to push and
hold a transparent cover with
one hand while the other hand
reaches inside the box for a
toy, even though nobody has
taught him this skill. To
Bruner this seems extraordi-
nary, for it shows that the
baby has learned to distin-
guish between two kinds of
grip-the power, or "hold-
ing," grip, which stabilizes an
object, usually with the left
hand, and the precision, or
"operating," grip, which does
the work, usually with the
right. Monkeys and apes also
develop a precision grip, says
Bruner, but only in man, with
his asymmetry, does the pow-
er grip migrate to the left
hand while the precision grip
migrates to the right. This
ability to specialize is the be-
ginning of a long road lead-
ing to the distinctively human
use of tools and toolmaking.
If the left hemisphere does
all this, why do we need a
right hemisphere? Experi-
ments with split-brain cats
and monkeys could not shed
much light on the differing
specialties of man's two hemi-
spheres. The study of the two
personalities in our brain did
not really begin until 1961,
when Sperry became inter-
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whose head had been hit by
bomb fragments during World
War II.
FEW years after
his injury, W. J.
had
begun
to have epi-
leptic fits; these became so
frequent and so severe that
nothing could control them.
He would fall down, uncon-
scious and foaming at the
mouth, often hurting himself
as he fell. For more than five
years, doctors at the White
Memorial Medical Center in
Los Angeles tried every con-
ceivable remedy, without suc-
cess. Finally Drs. Philip Vo-
gel and Joseph Bogen cut
through his corpus callosum,
and the seizures stopped, as
if by magic. There was a
rocky period of recovery, dur-
ing which W. J., a man of
above-average
intelligence,
could not speak, but within a
month he announced that he
felt better than he had in
years. He appeared unchanged
in personality. He seemed per-
fectly normal.
Meanwhile, Sperry had in-
terested a graduate student,
Michael Gazzaniga, in per-
forming a series of tests on
W. J., together with him and
Dr. Bogen. Gazzaniga soon
discovered some extremely
odd things about his subject.
To begin with, W. J. could
carry out verbal commands
("raise your hand," or "bend
your knee") only with the
right side of his body. He
could not respond with his
left side. Evidently the right
hemisphere, which controls
the left limbs, did not under-
stand that kind of language.
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His left hand kept doing things that his right hand deplored, if it was aware of them at all: Some- times he would try to pull his pants down with one hand, while pulling them up with the other. Once he threatened his wife with his left hand while his right hand tried to come to his wife's rescue and bring the belligerent hand un- der control. Gazzaniga, now a professor of psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, recalls that he was playing horseshoes with W. J. in the patient's back yard when W. J. picked up an ax with his left hand. Alarmed, Gazzaniga discreetly left the scene. "It was entirely likely that the more aggres- sive right hemisphere might be in control," he explains. And since he couldn't com- municate with it, he didn't want to be the victim in a test case of "which half-brain does society punish or ex- ecute." Only the left half-brain could speak. The right one remained forever mute, un- able to do any tasks that re- quired judgment or interpre- tation based on language. Of course, it was also unable to read. This meant that when- ever he was faced with a page of printed matter, W. J. could read only the words in the right half of his visual field, which projected to his left hemisphere. His right hemi- sphere seemed blind. Reading thus became very difficult and tiring for him. He also found it impossible to write any words with his left hand, al- though he had been able to do so with a little effort be- fore his operation. (He was thoroughly right-handed.) Indeed, from the early tests on W. J. it appeared at first that his right hemisphere was nearly imbecilic. But then came the day when W. J., with a pencil in his left hand, was shown the outline of a Greek cross. Swiftly and surely, he copied it, drawing the entire figure with one continuous line. When he was asked to copy the same cross with his clever right hand, however, he could not do it. He drew a few lines in a dis- connected way, as if he could see only one small part of the cross at a time, and was un- able to finish the pattern. With six separate strokes, he had made only half of the cross. Urged to do more, he added a few lines but then stopped before completing it and said he was done. It was clearly not a lack of motor control, but a defect in con- ception-in striking contrast with the quick grasp of his nonverbal half. SINCE then, - a tantalizing pic- ture of the brain's mute hemisphere has begun to emerge. Far from being stupid, the right half-brain is merely speechless and illiterate. It ac- tually perceives, feels and thinks in ways all its own, which in some cases may prove superior. The only prob- lem is to communicate with it nonverbally, as if it were an exceedingly intelligent animal. There are some revealing movies of the first split-brain patients to be studied in Sperry's lab. (By now, 18 pa- tients have been tested there.) One sequence shows a 12- year-old boy seated before a screen with his eyes fixed on a point in the center of it. When pictures of various ob- jects are flashed to the right or left of this point, each picture is seen only by the opposite hemisphere. A pic- ture is flashed in the boy's left visual field, which is con- trolled by his right half-brain, and the boy says he saw nothing. (That, of course, is the left hemisphere speaking.) But at the same time his left hand (controlled by his right hemisphere) searches behind the screen, rejecting a wide variety of objects, until it fi- nally finds, by touch, what it is looking for: a pair of scis- sors, to match the scissors that the right hemisphere saw on the screen. In other frames, W. J. is seen trying to arrange some colored blocks according to a diagram. He has no trouble at all doing this construction test with his left hand. But when his right hand tries, it gets hopelessly mixed up. Im- patiently, his left hand shoots forward to help him, but the experimenter pushes it back. The right hand continues turning the blocks this way and that, achieving nothing. Again the left hand tries to come to the rescue, only to be pushed back. Peeved, W. J. sits on that hand to keep it quiet. But he still can't do the block design with his right hand. When he is told he can try it with both hands, how- ever, the situation grows even worse: the two hands seem to fight for control, with the right hand tearing down what- ever the left hand has built. In spatial abilities, the right hemisphere is clearly tops. It also recognizes faces better than .the dominant left, as Declassified and Approved For Release 2014/01/09 : CIA-RDP79-00999A000200010094-2 ----
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If the left hand then pro- ceeds to do the job correctly, and this is pointed out to the patient, the speaking half will reply, "Well, I was just guess- ing," or, "Well, I must have done it unconsciously." It never even acknowledges the existence of its twin. Much mystery surrounds the behavior of the two half- brains in normal people. No- body knows whether these twin halves also ignore each other, actively inhibit each other, cooperate, compete or take turns at the controls. Sperry believes that they mostly cooperate, because of the 200 million fibers connect- ing them. But there are other opinions. The best clues come from children and adults who have had terrible accidents. If a child's left hemisphere is de- stroyed by a head injury or tumor before he is 5 or may- be even 10 years old, he can learn to speak again-some- times after a year of silence. His right half-brain will slowly take over the job. Not so for adults, who regain some speech after a stroke only if they have enough uninjured tissue remaining near the in- jury, on the left side. They cannot use their right half- brain for speaking. If a young child is injured in the right hemisphere, however, he will also experience difficulty with speech, though an adult would not. "The young child has speech and language on both sides of his head," Gazzaniga be- lieves. "He is, to some extent, a split brain, whose hemi- spheres tend to develop in- dependently and duplicate each other." At birth, the corpus callosum is only partly developed. It isn't until a child is about 2 years old that the link between his two hemispheres becomes really functional, so that everything experienced by one side is in- stantly available to the other. At that point, duplication of learning becomes less fre- quent, and true specialization begins. By the age of 10, domi- nance for speech-and prob- ably for other skills as well --- is fixed. Tasks of synthesis, spatial perception and music apparently go to the right side. The left side gets all the sequential, verbal, ana- lytical, computerlike activi- ties. And, strangely, "excel- lence in one tends to interfere with top-level performance in the other," Sperry notes. To avoid bottlenecks, eventually most of the traffic flows in one direction, while few op- portunities arise for the other hemisphere to develop its own skills. The "traffic cop" in this case may well be the corpus callosum. The speech learned by the right hemi- sphere in early childhood is thus functionally suppressed. In time, it may be lost or perhaps erased. N California recent- ly, two young psy- chologists have been study- ing how normal people use or suppress their hemi- spheres. When you write a letter, for instance, does the left side of your brain show more electrical activity than the right? By pasting elec- trodes on the scalp of voiun- teers, Drs. 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ing them," declare Ornstein
and Galin. "These modes com-
plement each other but do not
readily substitute for each
other." Thus, when people
are asked to describe a spiral
staircase, they may begin by
using words, but soon switch
to hand gestures.
Ideally we should be able
to turn on the appropriate
hemisphere and turn off the
other, whenever the task re-
quires it. But in fact we can-
not always do it. "Many per-
sons are dominated by one
mode or the other," observes
Dr. Ornstein. "They either
have difficulty in dealing with
crafts and body movements,
or difficulty with language."
Culture apparently has a lot
to do with this. Children from
poor black
neighborhoods
generally learn to use their
right hemisphere more than
the left-they outscore whites
on tests of pattern recogni-
tion from incomplete figures,
for instance, but tend to do
badly at verbal tasks. Other
children, who have learned to
verbalize everything, find this
approach a hindrance when
it comes to copying a tennis
serve or learning a dance step.
Analyzing these movements
verbally just slows them down
and interferes with direct
learning through the right
hemisphere.
"We don't have the flexi-
bility we could have." says
Ornstein. "We are under the
illusion of having more con-
trol than we really do." Early
in life, it seems, many of us
become shaped either as "left-
hemisphere types," who func-
tion in a largely verbal world,
or
as
"right-hemisphere
types," who rely more on non-
verbal means of expression.
These are two basically dif-
ferent approaches to the
world.
So fundamental are these
differences that they influ-
ence even the direction in
which our eyes turn when we
think. This was discovered by
Dr. Merle Day, of the V.A.
hospital in Downey, Ill., but
I learned it from Dr. Ernest
Hilgard, of Stanford Univer-
sity, while talking to him
about his work on hypnosis.
Dr. Hilgard suddenly stared
at me, leaning close to my
eyes, and said, "Count the
number of letters in Minne-
sota." I did so, avoiding his
gaze to concentrate better.
"You looked to the right,"
announced Dr. Hilgard when
I finished. This meant that
my left hemisphere was more
easily activated than my
right, he explained. Since
electrical stimulation in the
right side of the brain makes
both eyes veer to the left, and
vice versa, looking to the right
while thinking showed that
the left hemisphere was pre-
ferred. However, it also meant
that I was not very hypnotiz-
able, since various experi-
ments have shown the right
hemisphere to be more amen-
able to hypnosis. People who
look to the left tend to prefer
nonverbal tasks, to favor their
right hemisphere, and to be
easily hypnotized. An unusu-
ally large proportion of those
who look to the right, as I did,
turn out to be scientists, re-
searchers, writers or others
who spend much of their time
at analytic tasks.
When the habit of always
using the same side of the
brain
becomes too pro-
nounced, it can narrow one's
personality. Drs. Ornstein and
Galin. believe. The two re-
searchers are currently work-
ing on a test that may enable
them to tell which half-brain
a person chronically favors,
and whether this habit inter-
feres with the ability to shift
dominance to the other side
when necessary. They plan to
try it out on people who are
really specialized, like Ralph
Nader (a left-hemisphere type
who has no hobbies of any
kind) and right-hemisphere
potters, dancers and sculptors
("preferably people who have
trouble with language"). They
expect to find significant dif-
ferences between the two
groups. This should give them
a tool with which to guide
children or adults to new as-
pects of themselves, to open
them to a full range of ex-
periences.
VENTUALLY, they
hope people will
activate the left
or
right hemisphere vol-
untarily. This has already
been tried in their lab. With
learn
to
electrodes on their scalp to
record changes in their brains'
electrical activity, and ear-
phones to inform them in-
stantly of how they are do-
ing, half a dozen volunteers
have attempted to increase
the asymmetry between their
two half-brains. So far the re-
sults appear promising: Nearly
all of the volunteers have
managed
to activate one
hemisphere more than the
other, through feedback. They
have produced as much dif-
ference between their two
hemispheres in this way as
when actually concentrating
on mental arithmetic or draw-
ing. One subject produced
even more asymmetry through
biofeedback than through a
change of tasks.
Some training of this kind
may prove particularly useful
for children who suffer from
what is generally called dys-
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NY 10021 . 879.4644 Coburn (Continued from Page 132) vocabulary with which to ex- press their basic needs and feelings. Unfortunately, Mrs. Glass had to stop her lessons after a short time as each patient was dismissed from the hospital and sent to a nursing home in another part of the country. The 84-year- . old woman, for instance, went off to Florida, and Mrs. Glass herself has moved to Pittsburgh. But eventually she hopes to expand this kind of program to incorporate the whole nursing staff in a hos- pital, the family and, if neces- sary, the nursing homes where her patients will live. "Half an hour a day is all right for experimental purposes," she says, "but to really help the patients, they should be en- couraged to use the system 12 hours a day." The symbols could then be made of Velcro, which sticks to a Velcro board at any angle, and the word each symbol represents could be printed on it for the ben- efit of all the literate people who wish to communicate with the patient. We can experience many things outside of the normal language system, as do young children before they learn to speak. Gazzaniga recently tested two patients at the Cornell Medical School who were being examined for brain tumors. They were about to undergo angiograms - X-rays of their brains' blood vessels, made visible with a special dye. While a needie was in place in their left carotid artery, in the neck, to prepare them for the injection of dye, small doses of Amytal (an anesthetic) were injected into their left hemisphere, putting it briefly to sleep- a method used in many studies of brain func- tion. His purpose was to show exactly which side their speech center was on. "It's a very dramatic pro- cedure," reports Gazzaniga. "The patient lies on a table, with both hands held in the air. Twenty seconds after the drug goes in, his right hand sinks down-he's completely paralyzed on the right side, though the other side of his brain remains awake, for a minute and a half. This is our testing time. We put an ob- ject, say a cigarette, in his left hand. He feels it. His right hemisphere, which con- trois that hand, is wide- awake. We remove the ciga- rette. Then the effects of the Amytal wear off and the left hemisphere wakes up. We ask the patient how he feels. 'Fine,' he replies. 'What did I put in your hand? I ask. 'I don't know,' says the pa- tient. 'Are you sure?' 'Yes,' he says. Then we show him a series of objects-a pencil, a pad of paper, a comb, a cig- arette-and ask him, 'Which one was it?' In spite of every- thing he has said, his left hand immediately points to the cigarette." This shows that the mem- ory trace, or engram, of the cigarette was encoded in his right hemisphere, and that it could be expressed nonver- bally, but that the verbal side of his brain did not have ac- cess to it. "It's a psychiatrist's dream," Gazzaniga says. "Something that's there, in the patient's brain, and that influences his behavior, but that he can't get at!" It may explain why memories formed in earliest childhood are inaccessible, he notes. The memories may be sharp and ciear. They may control future behavior. But since they were formed be- fore the child . learned to speak, they cannot be re- called through the language system, not even through what the Russian psycholo- gist Lev Vygotsky called "in- ner speech," speech for one- self, or thought. Vygotsky believed that thought is born through words. Without words, he said, quot- ing a Russian poet, "My thought, unembodied, returns to the realm of shadows." Our earliest memories, too, dwell in a realm of shadows. And yet, something was expe- rienced, and something of its flavor remains to haunt us through the rest of our lives. Perhaps the right hemi- sphere's functions are too shrouded in shadows to be called thought. According to the Australian physiologist Sir John Eccles, a Nobel Prize winner, the right hemisphere Experiment: A baby given a transparent plastic box reveals his knowledge of two-hand- edness-one to hold the lid, the other to grasp the con- tents-a reflection of left- and right-brain functions. -- € A s arm (con can a c cons smel anim lang ture, mals they he cl const that own most his is in the the where brain the woma split makes not c report doesn' Only have knowl "Co brain. silent asked : ciety cently. know? laught Both t preciat standin the let Neve increas view 0 whose importa day. W Declassified and Approved For Release 2014/01/09 : CIA-RDP79-00999A000200010094-2 1 BORO HALL ACADEMY "ALWAYS IN THE LEAD" OUR 34th YEAR COLLEGE PRIP-GENERAL or COMMERCIAL DIPLOMAS. Days/Sat. Regents Accredited. Vets OK Approven for Foreign Students GRAUES 5-12 . COED Air-Cend. Driver Ed. FALL-SUMMER-SPRING TERMS For Catator/Registration/Appt. PHONE: UL 8-2447 or EX 2-2679 17 Smith St., B'klyn, N. 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Declassified and Approved For Release 2014/01/09 : CIA-RDP79-00999A000200010094-2 Conflict A split-brain patient threatens an aggressive act with his left arm (controlled by his right half-brain) while his right arm (controlled by his left half-brain) moves to restrain it. cannot truly think. He makes a clear distinction between consciousness of sounds or smells, which we share with animals, and the world of language, thought and cul- ture, which is man-made. Ani- mals can be conditioned, but they cannot create a culture, he claims. Primates leave no constructions, no art, nothing that can live beyond their own time, despite a brain al- most as large as man's. In his opinion, everything that is truly human derives from the left hemisphere, where the speech center is, and where interactions between brain and mind occur. When the right hemisphere of a woman whose brain has been split sces something that makes her smile or blush, it's not correct to say she can't report why she smiled-she doesn't know why she smiled. Only the left hemisphere can have true thoughts or true knowledge, through language. "Could the right half of the brain appreciate Chaplin's silent movies?" Eccles was asked at a meeting of the So- ciety for Neuroscience re- cently. "How would you know?" he shot back, to much laughter in the audience. Both the report of such ap- preciation . and our under- standing of it would require the left hemisphere. Nevertheless, the evidence increasingly favors a generous view of the right half-brain, whose role may be far more important than we know to- day. When Einstein was asked how he arrived at some of his most original ideas, he ex- plained that he rarely thought in words at all. "A thought comes, and I may try to ex- press it in words afterwards," he said. His concepts first ap- peared through "physical en- tities" -- certain signs and more or less clear images that he could reproduce and combine. These elements were "of visual and some of mus- cular type," he added. "Con- ventional words or other signs have to be sought for labori- ously only in a secondary stage, when the mentioned associative play is sufficient- ly established and can be re- produced at will." This held true only for his creative work in physics; in other ac- tivities, he had no trouble with words. He liked to com- pose limericks, and his let- ters were both fluent and pithy. Apparently he could make exceptionally good use of . both sides of his brain. However, his love of music and his reliance on nonverbal concepts seem to indicate a preference for his right hem- isphere. For centuries we have con- centrated on the verbal side of our brains: the side that produces things we know how to analyze and measure. Our mute half-brain remains un- charted. 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