Lots of peo­ple have been say­ing how impressed they were by neu­roanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor’s TED Talk at this year’s con­fer­ence. None, how­ever, have summed it up bet­ter than Vaughan:

It’s a bit poetic in places. You can almost hear the sound of a thou­sand cog­ni­tive sci­en­tists grit­ting their teeth as she describes the sup­posed func­tions of each cere­bral hemi­sphere and prob­a­bly the sound of some of them faint­ing when she describes the “deep inner peace cir­cuitry” of the right hemisphere.

Neu­roanatomists may notice that this is almost exactly the same sound that occurs when psy­chol­o­gists describe some­thing as a ‘frontal’ function.

The talk is grip­ping, how­ever, and the high­light is her descrip­tion of the day she had her stroke which is both insight­ful and very funny.

via Mind­Hacks