On Time Space and the Cerebral Hemispheres: A Theoretical Note

Abstract

The two well know dichotomies in hemispheric functions--temporal-spatial, and analysis-synthesis (extraction-integration)--are combined in a unified theory of cerebral dominance. The two dichotomies are first considered within the framework of a two-stage model of information processing, and subsequently reduced to the extraction and integration operations performed at each of the two stages. At the first stage, the respective operations of extraction and integration applied on the sensory stream yield the spatiotemporal organization of events. At the second stage, these operations are expressed in progressively more complex organizations such as verbal coding and pictorial imagery. The model is finally generalized into a multiple-stage model. Some empirical consequences are derived.

Cybernetical physics Part II: the EPR paradox and its implications

“…According to the philosopher Kant, time and space are our subjective modes of perceiving experience, and not things as they are in themselves. This view is in line with the hemispheric paradigm, according to which time and space are the mode by which the hemispheric mechanisms organize the perceived phenomena (Ben Dov and Carmon, 1976). That is, the 3D of space and the one dimension of time are given to us by innate intuition, and are not necessarily accurate features of a real physical world.…”

“…We saw that Feynman's observation regarding electrically charged microscopic particles (that are perceived analytically by left hemisphere) that these particles may be considered as moving backwards in time leads to a far reaching consequence regarding the structure of the spatial‐temporal continuum of the universe (that is perceived by the right hemisphere). This observation may be explained by the model of Ben Dov and Carmon (1976) according to which the right hemisphere integrates several details that were perceived by the left hemisphere into a new comprehensive whole. Therefore, changing the features of the details may change the features of the whole.…”

Cognitive and neuropsychological basis for quantum mechanics

“…collection of elements which cannot be elements of sets. In terms of the model of Ben-Dov and Carmon (1976) this counter-intuitive feature of classes means that a class cannot be transferred to the left hemisphere, in order to be treated there as an ordinary element.…”

Cognitive and hemispheric inversions when learning nonstandard arithmetic

“…evy-Agresti and Sperry (1968) sug-L gested that the left cerebral hemisphere processes data analytically-one by one-while the right hemisphere synthesizes a new whole out of several data. Ben-Dov and Carmon (1976) generalized this dichotomy into a general model of the brain's functioning and derived the various hemispheric dichotomies from the basic analytic-synthetic dichotomy. This model describes the brain's functioning as multistage information processing by two mechanisms.…”

“…This phenomenon was explained in Fidelman (1987a) using the model of Ben-Dov and Carmon (1976). According to this explanation the cognitive process which is related to paradoxes and diagonal processes consists of the following stages:…”