3 Quotes & Sayings By Louis Cozolino

Dr. Louis Cozolino is a clinical psychologist and a professor of psychology at the University of Southern California. He is the author of The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain, as well as The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Brain, Mind, and Family.

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As the language areas of the left hemisphere enter their sensitive period during the middle of the second year of life, grammatical language in the left integrates with the interpersonal and prosodic elements of communication already well developed in the right. As the cortical language centers mature, words are joined together to make sentences and can be used to express increasingly complex ideas flavored with emotion. As the frontal cortex continues to expand and connect with more neural networks, memory improves and a sense of time slowly emerges and autobiographical memory begins to connect the self with places and events, within and across time. The emerging narratives begin to organize the nascent sense of self and become the bedrock of our sense of self in interpersonal and physical space. Louis Cozolino
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An inclusive narrative structure provides the executive brain with the best template and strategy for the oversight and coordination of the functions of mind. A story well told, containing conflicts and resolutions, gestures and expressions, and thoughts flavored with emotion, connects people ad integrates neural networks Louis Cozolino