"Why being slightly mad could be an advantage?"
Event details
| Date | 22.05.2009 |
| Hour | 12:30 |
| Speaker | Dr. Christine Mohr, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Brisol, UK |
| Location |
Salle 5060, Bâtiment Anthropole, UNIL Dorigny
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Magical belief and language processing in the two cerebral hemispheres
Magical thinking and/or belief is one of the productive symptoms reported from patients with
schizophrenia, and is, at the same time, a common experience in the general population. In both
instances, this thinking style has been related to an attenuated left hemispheric dominance for
language, and a consecutive disinhibition of remote associative processing in the right hemisphere.
While this right hemisphere contribution to language processing in the patient population might impinge
normal conversational capacities, the same processes in the general population might facilitate creative
thinking. Studies are presented which demonstrate and support this view
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Contact
- Organisation: Prof. Catherine Brandner