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Specificity of switching attention in mechanisms of visual thinking in hemispheres of the human brain

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Results of experiments on the sequence of stages of visual perception and theoretical notions on the structure of invariant descriptions of classes of visual objects are considered. Two interrelated theses on the mechanisms of visual thinking in the hemispheres of the human brain are substantiated: (1) in visual thinking each hemisphere of the human brain uses (the “a part through parts”) structural principle of describing objects and scenes; and (2) differences in visual recognition and classification between the dominant (with respect to speech) and subdominant hemispheres are related to the mechanisms of the switching attention system.

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Original Russian Text © V.M. Krol, 2009, published in Fiziologiya Cheloveka, 2009, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 13–19.

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Krol, V.M. Specificity of switching attention in mechanisms of visual thinking in hemispheres of the human brain. Hum Physiol 35, 402–408 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0362119709040021

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