Brain and Mind

Abstract

    The brain-mind problem was reviewed in connection with the following: (a) monism-dualism controversies among distinguished psychologists, neurophysiologists, and theoretical physicists, (b) modularity and gradient theory concerning location of mental function in the brain, (c) brain correlates of autistic disorders as expressed in low brain connectivity, and (d) fMRI studies in relation to the theory of mind.  Finally, the important role of the self-referent function of the right hemisphere for understanding one’s own mental states and those of others was discussed.