Iain McGilchrist, psychiatrist, author, and my new favorite person, tells us that so many of the left versus right brain arguments from the ’60s and ’70s have been disproven—for example that emotion and language are controlled by the left hemisphere and that the right hemisphere controls visual images and reason. All of those things are important throughout the brain. So, “in a fit of despair,” as McGilchrist says, people have given up talking about it.

via Our Divided Brains Might Be Making Us Unhappy: A Plea for a More Right-Brained World.