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RSA Animate – Matthew Taylor: Left brain, right brain

By on Friday, January 22nd, 2010

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Explore how brain and behaviour research is increasingly being incorporated into political and policy debate. Watch Matthew Taylor’s lecture,  which inspired this Animate.



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  • http://www.pmm.nl RCdW

    Great video! I believe an attention economy should replace the classical and in many ways it does already but is not recognized as such. Also, ethics (left) or morals (right, see http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/leftvrigh…) should be restored according to our judeo-christian cultural values and norms (my take: http://www.pmm.nl/philo/philo.htm#figure18).

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  • Alex R

    Really enjoyed this – nicely condensed overview of the subject accompanied by brilliant drawing. A captivating watch. More please!

  • http://twitter.com/squaxor Simon Johnson

    Insightful and compelling. The visualisation carries the discourse to new heights.

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  • jannadziewanna

    All nice and cool, but couldn't it avoid this nasty sexism? Really? The only woman in this “let's talk about humans” lecture is a woman from Worcester, drawn just to be underlined as “she's not right”. Seriously, small things like this make this project (RSA seems great as far) worst than it could be.

    P.S. English language has wonderful feature: you can talk about universal concepts without gender, but it is lost when you draw only men as an examples of human beings.

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    This seem to be a useful video, i watched it through you tube, in this website it is taking too much of time to load so i am switching to a new one. 

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    Very interesting, great animate you’ve made. I’m going to watch Matthew Taylor’s lecture now :-)

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  • Rawdonwaller

    Using the phrase ‘left-brain, right-brain’ is a little misleading, given that one doesn’t find many neuroscientists accepting that certain functions can be neatly partitioned according to anatomical landmarks (or at least such large landmarks as the left-right hemispheric junction). Given that Lashley’s equipotentiality is a flawed theory as well though, I did enjoy this talk. Will RSA animate any talks where humans talk about issues other than those affecting other humans? Maybe a discussion of the human cognitive bias towards anthropocentrism? 

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  • Woodytel

    Help! – the video is speeded up for the first 25 seconds, with no sound coming through!