Brain Damage unlocks the Artist

domingo, fevereiro 24, 2013 David Barradas 0 Comments

Brain damage has unleashed extraordinary talents in a small group of otherwise ordinary individuals.

Savant skills, Miller argues, emerge because the areas ravaged by disease—those associated with logic, verbal communication, and comprehension—have actually been inhibiting latent artistic abilities present in those people all along. As the left brain goes dark, the circuits keeping the right brain in check disappear. The skills do not emerge as a result of newly acquired brain power; they emerge because for the first time, the areas of the right brain associated with creativity can operate unchecked.

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-02/when-brain-damage-unlocks-genius-within?single-page-view=true


If this is true it's our left part of the brain that "censors" or prevents our abilities to present themselves. I wonder if we can let our abilities show up without the damaged brain?