http://www.gnxp.com/new/2007/06/25/writing-and-how-we-think/ Genetics Tue, 03 Apr 2018 05:20:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.27 http://www.gnxp.com/new/2007/06/25/writing-and-how-we-think/#comment-22049 Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:23:00 +0000 #comment-22049 agnostic, One of the results I didn’t mention comes from the aphasic studies. They found that they had trouble with the agent-object-patient sentences when they oriented their bodies to the right, but not the left. It’s in the Chatterjee 1995 paper, I think.

]]> http://www.gnxp.com/new/2007/06/25/writing-and-how-we-think/#comment-22050 Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:48:18 +0000 #comment-22050 That’s a pretty neat result. 
 
One question on “innate organization of the brain” affecting spatial thinking that I’d like to see investigated is: In what direction do people look when they’re thinking through a problem, especially when they are trying to find a clear way of explaining something to someone else in person (like teacher and student). I always look up and to the left — it seriously hurts to look to the right at all in this situation (although to the left and down is tolerable). I noticed several profs in college doing the same thing. Maybe the neuroscientists can tell me if that means I’m activating the right hemisphere of my brain or not… 
 
It would also be interesting to see if this differed by profession / academic field, as well as by language spoken, controlling for race of course.

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