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In his three-book exploration of signs and synapse, Jacques Chevalier explores the links between brain science, studies of symbolism, and debates in ancient, modern, and postmodern philosophy to shed light on how brain and signs in language actually interface. In "The 3D Mind" the author pursues this dialogue across disciplines through an elegantly simple plan that mirrors the three-dimensional structure of the brain, proceeding from the saggital (right-left) to the axial (top-down) and the coronal (front-rear) dimensions of neuropsychology. "Half-Brain Fables and Figs in Paradise" starts the trilogy on the lateral plane and explores the tendency of each hemisphere to specialize but also to complement or supplement the other hemisphere. Brain and sign processing is thus shown to involve bimodal weavings or reticles of right-hemispheric similarities and left-hemispheric differences.Chevalier goes on to illustrate how whole-brain connectivity generates the crisscrossings of oppositions and metaphors in language, using symbolically rich material ranging from Western naming practices to expressions of ethnobotany in the bible (figs in "Genesis"), poetry (Longfellow's "Evangeline"), and

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Author

Jacques M. Chevalier

Publisher

Mcgill Queens Univ Pr

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780773523555

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Linguistics, Science, Philosophy

Rating

4 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14