In emergencies, the Guardienne bypasses the frontal cortex, and the signal path is roughly 50 cm, from eye to brain stem, saving ~15 cm travel.
[EDITED; see below] Previous posts have introduced the concept of The Guardienne, an unconscious, autonomous protective region in the brain that can bypass the frontal cortex and take action in an emergency. More information is posted at ResearchGate, here: bit.ly/2tnFyhv It occurred to…
Reblogged from 8GreatStoryTellers.com The Mind of Hitler, continued… There were twelve important questions about Hitler that needed to be answered in my historical novel, In the Mouth of the Lion. Question 1 was addressed in a previous post. Questions 2, 3, and 4…
Reblogged from 8GreatStorytellers.Wordpress.com The Mind of Hitler As stated in the previous post, The Guardienne [link], there were twelve important questions about Hitler that needed to be answered in my historical novel, In the Mouth of the Lion. They were: Did Hitler have…
Reblogged from 8GreatStorytellers.WordPress.com. The Guardienne Every writer should be an amateur psychologist. If your characters act in ways inconsistent with human behavior, your readers will throw up their hands and say, “Nobody would do that!” Their suspended disbelief will drop like a dead…
