But there is some distinction between the sexes in the function of frontal cortex.
Table 3
Comparative items Men Women
Adaptive decision-making They like the dependent type. They like the independent type.
Situation-dependent decision-making Left prefrontal cortex activates. Right and left posterior cortex (parietal cortex) activates.
Situation-independent decision-making Right prefrontal cortex activates. Right and left prefrontal cortex activates.
Function of cerebral cortex Right and left brain differs remarkably. Anterior and posterior brain differs remarkably.
Processing of language information Anterior and posterior portions of left hemisphere activate. Right and left frontal cortex of cerebral hemisphere activates.
Connections within the brain White matter fiber bundle to bind the anterior and posterior portions of a hemisphere is large; the functional integrity of a hemisphere is particularly noteworthy. Callosum to bind right and left brain is heavy and the functional integrity of a hemisphere is distinctly noticeable.
I presume that the right and left prefrontal cortex activated when Gordimer wrote The Late Bourgeois World because this opinion can solidify the accepted reading of “space and time.”
The output of the reading brain in terms of “space and time” becomes an adaptive ability through motivation. It leads to the far-sighted risk avoidance by activating an author’s comprehensive capacity for actions such as understanding, thought, and judgment. The accepted vertical in the L model of Gordimer’s story becomes language and literature → language cognition → space and time. The horizontal symbiosis becomes space and time → information cognition → motivation and adaptive ability. The synergic metaphor “Gordimer and motivation” is obtained from these terms. Considering the sort of memory derived from the created database, Max’s reminiscence is seen in each scene, and the novel contains a lot of episodic memories.
花村嘉英訳（2018）「シナジーのメタファーの作り方」より translated by Yoshihisa Hanamura