Report: Creativity Of JIMI HENDRIX Can Be Traced To The High Level Of Integration Between His Brain’s Two Hemispheres
February 23, 2010, 14 years ago
Tom Jacobs from Miller-mccune.com is reporting:
The late guitarist JIMI HENDRIX is an icon of the 1960s counterculture, an energetic emblem of creative rebelliousness. A newly published paper suggests he also represents something else entirely: the imaginative power that is unleashed when the two hemispheres of the brain work together.
Writing in the journal Laterality, University of Toledo psychologist Stephen Christman notes that Hendrix was “mixed-handed:” He wrote and ate with his right hand, but combed his hair and played the guitar with his left. Several previous studies — including one we reported on last fall — have associated this trait with creativity, apparently because it indicates unusually strong interaction between the brain’s right and left hemispheres.
If Christman’s analysis is correct, Hendrix is a vivid example of this phenomenon. The groundbreaking musician’s ability to utilize both sides of his brain “enabled him to integrate the actions of his left and right hands while playing guitar, to integrate the lyrics and melodies of his songs, and perhaps even to integrate the older blues and R&B; tradition with the emerging folk, rock and psychedelic sounds of the ’60s,” he writes.
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