Left and Right Brain Dominance and the Impact on Learning

The human brain is a wondrous invention that has many scientists and researchers very busy to this very day. There are numerous qualities about the brain humans know about, yet there are still a great number of mysteries to the brain and how it functions left to be discovered and shared. Some facts scientists do know about the brain is that it is divided into to primary sections, called hemispheres. Each person has a left and right hemisphere of the brain. Each hemisphere is in charge of specific abilities, tasks, and functions. This paper will review what each hemisphere is responsible for and describe ways that each hemisphere is predisposed to learn.

The right side of the brain is responsible for putting information together eg. information recived from eyes-if you see a flower information goes from eyes to the right side of your brain , firing neurons, putting information together so you are able to say "I can see a flower".The left side of the brain analyses information which is collected by the right side of the brain. It

In the excerpt “Right Brain Rising”, Daniel Pink tells his experience in depth detail of an intriguing brain scan beneficial both to his curious mind, and the world of science. He then goes on to inform readers of the two distinct halves resting in our skulls; following up with the past inferiority associated with the human right brain, thought to be due to years of evolution. After acknowledging the disproved theory, Pink delves into information pertaining to psychology’s six

In which exact placement of an object or word mattered if the image went to right brain or left brain. Tactical stimulation in which the participants were asked to feel the object but could not see it. And testing auditory was the hardest one they said because the sound enters through both of your ears so they are sent to both sides of your brain. But you can minimize to one side of hemisphere as Gazzaniga explained in his methods. After performing all this methods he revealed some fascinating findings about brain functions. With visual ability he said that both sides of your brain are equally skilled for visual perception. But when the lights were flashed on both sides of brain and the patients could only see the ones on the right because the center of speech is located on the left side of brain so in order to say that you saw the light the object have to be seen by the left side of your brain. With the tactile stimulation same thing was done but this time the object was placed in their hands and since the left hemisphere have verbal abilities it was easily identified the object that was placed in right hand but with left

Using a real human brain, Dr. Taylor explained the separation of the brain’s right and left hemispheres. The two cerebral cortices are completely separate from one another, but maintain communication via the corpus callosum. She described the right hemisphere as a parallel processor, thinking in images and learning from body movement. The right hemisphere is responsible for gathering sensory input, in the form of energy, from the environment around us. The left hemisphere, according to Dr. Taylor, is a serial processor, interpreting the sensory information gathered by the right hemisphere. The sensory information is analyzed and categorized by the linear and methodical thinking of the left hemisphere. Dr. Taylor believes the left hemisphere is responsible for interpretation of the past and future, as well as, an individual’s self-awareness. The

The book starts with the Chapter Right Brain Rising describing hemisphere of left brain and right brain. According to Pink the left brain hemisphere is consistent of logistic, literal and analytic personal whereas right brain is for holistic reasoning, body language, patterns recognitions and emotions. He carefully pointed out that the term L-Brain

Yarnell’s response to her friend made me stop and think if it is just that simple, to think differently. When I get stressed out over something and let my emotions take over I usually just let them control me. Now after hearing Dr. Yarnell, every time and become emotional I am going to remind myself to just move into the left side of my brain. Hopefully by doing that I will be able to think more logically. I have heard of this concept before, but I did not have a full understanding on what it really meant. I thought that when some one said you were left brained or right brained, it was just a silly saying. I found it very surprising that it is actually a true concept. I is really amazing how the brain works and the many different functions of it. We discussed many other parts of the brain and how they work also. I just found that when discussing the brain, most of the parts were not as interesting as the two hemispheres. After class, I actually went home and used the terms of the hemispheres all night on my parents. My mom is a psych nurse so she understood, but when it came to my dad, it took a lot of explaining. After a few attempts, he was able to understand how fascinating the brain really can

Will right-brainers rule the future? A whole new mind: why right-brainers will rule the future, a book by Daniel H. Pink assesses this critical question. Pink’s book is divided into two parts. Part one lays out the broad animating idea, provides an overview of key differences between our left and right hemispheres, presents the case for why Abundance, Asia, and Automation pushes the world into the “Conceptual Age”. It illustrates why people who master high concept and high touch set the tempo for modern life. Part two of the book covers the six essential right brain abilities Pink described as needed to make it in the Conceptual Age. Design. Story. Symphony. Empathy. Play. Meaning. Pink devotes one chapter to each of these six senses,

Mead & Hampson (1996) developed a study involving the divided visual field paradigm and a phonological rhyme/non-rhyme task to test the speed and accurateness of either side of the brain. This study was used to investigate functional asymmetry between the left and right hemispheres in phonological processing. The research was taken out equally on 15 male and 15 females London Metropolitan University students ranging from ages 18 – 35 years old. They were all specifically chosen to be right–handed and had English as their first language thus providing a fair experiment to see whether our left hemisphere (left side of the brain) or the right hemisphere is faster and more accurate. In conclusion using the mean and standard

For many decades people have been considered to be either right or left side dominant in regards to brain function which came with defined roles such as “creative” or “analytical”. This thinking tends to be over-simplified as most people use their entire brains daily (Jensen, 2010). On the other hand people do use different parts of their brain for different tasks according to how they perceive those tasks.

Some traits that are associated with the right brain are: Holistic: processing information from whole to part; sees the big picture first, not the details. Random: processing information without priority, jumps from one task to another. Concrete: Process things that can be seen, touched, real objects. Intuitive: processing information based on whether or not it feels right, know the answer but not sure how it was derived. Nonverbal: processing though as illustrations. Fantasy-Oriented: processing information with creativity, less focus on rules and regulations.

In the Conceptual Age, it will not longer suffice to rely heavily on the logic of the left brain. Computers, cheaper sources and labor will continue to lead to outsourcing of this work; instead, creativity and innovation will give rise to future development. To prosper in the Conceptual Age, people will need to weave together the logic of the left brain (L-directed thinking) and the creativity of the right brain (R-directed thinking).

Left-right brain dominance is about the fact that the distinct hemispheres influence thinking. The left hemisphere is associated with logical, analytical thinking and a linear approach to problem solving. The right hemisphere is associated with creative, intuitive and value-based thought process. It is important to note that everyone uses its both hemispheres, but to varying degrees. Four quadrants of the brain, related to different thinking style, have been identified:

“We as humans are designed to be well-rounded; we have two halves of the brain. We are not ignoring that right side of the brain, but we are certainly underserving that side of the brain. Says Lance eagled an art teacher at Churchill whose budget was recently cut. According to psychology, you have two parts of your brain. Some people have stronger sides than other for instance, if you are more left brained you have more analytical thinking, you think logically , are good at language in addition to math and science . If you have a stronger right, you are very imaginative; you are good at understanding something immediately, plus having creativity, in addition to Art and

People who are left brain tend to approach each problem with an analytical point of view. Right