Ways of Attending: How our Divided Brain Constructs the World
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- “Very good condition; shows minimal wear with pages clean and tight in binding;”
- ISBN
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN-10
178181533X
ISBN-13
9781781815335
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5038406086
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
32 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Ways of Attending : How Our Divided Brain Constructs the World
Subject
Movements / Psychoanalysis, General
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Psychology
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.2 in
Item Weight
1.1 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
Dewey Edition
23
eBook Format
EPUB
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
612.82
Synopsis
Everything we come to know and experience of the world depends on the way we attend to it. For reasons of survival, our brains have evolved to pay two kinds of attention to the world at the same time, though for the same reasons we cannot normally become aware of this neurological fact. This delivers two versions of the world with distinct qualities. In the one, associated with the right hemisphere of the brain, we experience the world as live, complex, embodied, implicit, full of individual, unique wholes which are nonetheless inseparably connected, as are we with it as a whole. In the other, associated with the left, we encounter the world as a representation, full of static, explicit, separable, bounded, but essentially fragmented entities, grouped into classes - but mechanistic and lifeless. As their civilisations declined, the world picture of first the Greeks and then the Romans moved from a fruitful balance of these to the triumph of the left hemisphere's view. We are busily repeating the pattern, perhaps for the last time., Attention is not just receptive, but actively creative of the world we inhabit. How we attend makes all the difference to the world we experience. And nowadays in the West we generally attend in a rather unusual way: governed by the narrowly focussed, target-driven left hemisphere of the brain. Forget everything you thought you knew about the difference between the hemispheres, because it will be largely wrong. It is not what each hemisphere does - they are both involved in everything - but how it does it, that matters. And the prime difference between the brain hemispheres is the manner in which they attend. For reasons of survival we need one hemisphere (in humans and many animals, the left) to pay narrow attention to detail, to grab hold of things we need, while the other, the right, keeps an eye out for everything else. The result is that one hemisphere is good at utilising the world, the other better at understanding it. Absent, present, detached, engaged, alienated, empathic, broad or narrow, sustained or piecemeal, attention has the power to alter whatever it meets. The play of attention can both create and destroy, but it never leaves its object unchanged. How you attend to something - or don't attend to it - matters a very great deal. This book helps you to see what it is you may have been trained by our very unusual culture not to see.
LC Classification Number
QP376
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