This paper considers and analyses the idea propounded by Iain McGilchrist that foundation of Western rationalism is dominance left side brain this occurred first in ancient Greece. It argues transformation Greece, as part a more widespread sometimes termed Axial Age, was, at least part, connected to emergence literacy which transformed workings human brain. was not uniform took different forms ...

Recent neuroimaging studies support the view that a left-lateralized brain network is crucial for language development in children. However, no previous studies have demonstrated a clear link between lateralized brain functional network and language performance in preschool children. Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a noninvasive brain imaging technique and is a practical neuroimaging method for...

The aim of this article is to illustrate the relation between the cognitive styles in Kolb's experiential learning model and dominance in brain functioning. A descriptive analytical study of the literature on creativity and the development of creative thinking, explored various theories and definitions of creativity, and the nature of creative learning. Congruences between cognitive styles and ...

Information processing in the brain requires adequate background neuronal activity. As Parkinson's disease progresses, patients typically become akinetic; the death of dopaminergic neurons leads to a dopamine-depleted state, which disrupts information processing related to movement in a brain area called the basal ganglia. Using agonists of dopamine receptors in the D1 and D2 families on rat br...

Abstract From the perspective of peripheralised countries, internationalisation is imbalanced and hegemonic, as it predominantly constructed by universities in Global North. We explore from cases sub-Saharan Africa through dominance Western knowledge systems brain drain; China isolation playing ‘catch up’; Indonesia financial crisis, bailout conditions International Monetary Fund World Bank mar...

While there is no doubt that children raised bilingual can become extremely proficient in both languages, theorists are divided on whether bilingualism effectively monolingualism twice (the “Two Monolinguals One Brain” hypothesis) or differs some fundamental way from monolingualism. A strong version of the Monolinguals” hypothesis predicts bilinguals achieve monolingual-level proficiency either...

Modelling complex social behavior in the laboratory is challenging and requires analyses of dyadic interactions occurring over time in a physically and socially complex environment. In the current study, we approached the analyses of complex social interactions in group-housed male CD1 mice living in a large vivarium. Intensive observations of social interactions during a 3-week period indicate...

The mammalian visual system has been extensively studied since Hubel and Wiesel's work on cortical feature maps in the 1960s. Feature maps representing the cortical neurons' ocular dominance, orientation and direction preferences have been well explored experimentally and computationally. The predominant view has been that direction selectivity (DS) in particular, is a feature entirely dependen...

When a different pattern is presented to each eye, the perceived image spontaneously alternates between the two patterns (binocular rivalry); the dynamics of these bistable alternations are known to be stochastic. Examining multistable binocular rivalry (involving four dominant percepts), we demonstrated path dependence and on-line adaptation, which were equivalent whether perceived patterns we...