Russian-American neuropsychologist and student of Aleksandr Luria who developed the gradient theory of frontal lobe function — proposing that the right hemisphere handles novel information and the left handles routinized processing.
Developed the hemispheric encoding theory — that the right frontal cortex processes novelty while the left frontal cortex processes routinized, familiar tasks — providing the neurological framework Peterson uses for his chaos/order model of the brain's engagement with experience.
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