My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

by Jill Bolte Taylor

It is interesting to note that although our limbic system functions throughout our lifetime, it does not mature. As a result, when our emotional “buttons” are pushed, we retain the ability to react to incoming stimulation as though we were a two year old, even when we are adults.

Although many of us may think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, biologically we are feeling creatures that think.