Left/Right Hemisphere Specialization

• Analytic thought– Step by step process

• Logic– Conclusions based upon a

logical or consecutive order

• Language– Using words to

name/describe/define

• Math & Science– Number use, awareness of

time, symbols, facts & linear reasoning

• Holistic thought– Seeing “big” picture before

understanding details

• Intuition– Insight based upon incomplete

patterns or “hunches”• Creativity

– Demonstrative with minimal word use, understanding relationships

• Art & Music– Putting pieces together to form

“wholes”

LEFT (a little bigger) RIGHT

• Take your dominant hand and make a clock-wise circle.

• Now take your opposite foot and circle it counter-clockwise– Easy, right?

• Now try and do the same thing, but with both dominant hand/foot

• Try these hemispheric activities…

The Corpus Callosum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfGwsAdS9Dc&noredirect=1

Split Brain Patients

Those who due to epilepsy, have their corpus callosum removed.

Contralateral control: right controls left and vice versa.

Testing the Divided Brain

Vision

• Left Visual Field is illustrated in RED

• Right Visual Field is illustrated in BLUE

Decreasing Left-handers