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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

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Left/Right Hemisphere Specialization

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  1. 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/Right Hemisphere Specialization LEFT (a little bigger) RIGHT

  2. 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…

  3. The Corpus Callosum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfGwsAdS9Dc&noredirect=1

  4. Split Brain Patients Those who due to epilepsy, have their corpus callosum removed. Contralateral control: right controls left and vice versa.

  5. Testing the Divided Brain

  6. Vision • Left Visual Field is illustrated in RED • Right Visual Field is illustrated in BLUE

  7. Decreasing Left-handers

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