Right_Brain

Right Brain vs. Left Brain and the Impact of Learning What is the brain' The brain is the hub of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals, there are only a few early invertebrate that don’t have a brain such as starfish and jelly fish. The brain is usually located close to the main sensory organs such as smelling, hearing, and vision. The brain of a primate is usually the most complex part of the body. The cerebral cortex of a human is estimated to contain 15-33 billion neurons. The neurons communicate with each other by long photoplasmic fibers called axons, which carries direct signal pulses called action potentials to distant parts of the brain or body targeting specific recipient cells (1). The purpose of the brain is to give sensible control over the action of an animal and or human. A center brain allows groups of muscles to be co-activated in complex patterns, it also allows stimuli impinging on one part of the body to evoke response in other of the body, it can also prevent different parts of the body from acting at cross purpose to each other(2). A longitudinal fissure divides the human brain into two cerebral hemisphere connected by the corpus callosum. Both hemisphere mirrors each other and both cortical hemisphere are managed differently. While the functions are lateralized there are only tendencies. The trend across many individuals may significantly different as to how any specific functions are implemented. The area of exploration of this casual or effectual difference of a particular brain function includes its gross anatomy, dendritic structure and neurotransmitter distribution. The chemical and structure variance of a particular brain function between two hemispheres of one brain o or between the same hemispheres of two different brains is still being studied. Brain lateralization is evident in the phenomena of right and left handedness and of right and left ear preference but a person preferred hand is not clear indication of the location of brain function. When doing mathematical and analytical thinking you are utilizing you left side of your brain and when you are creatively thinking or just daydreaming you are using the right side of the brain. One of the most important functions of the right side of the brain is judging the position of things in space, this function is the number one reason why you can drive a car in traffic and not get into an accident every time. The right side of the brain of the brain will figure out how far away an object is from you and recognize it location in space. Without this function you would be walking and bumping things all at the same time. The right side of the brain also controls many of the body’s actions and thoughts. It focuses around judging the position of things in space, knowing the body’s position, and understanding and remembering things we do and see, putting bit of information together to make an entire picture, and it control the left side of the body. It processes its information through feelings, symbols, image, imagination, philosophy, religion and creative thinking. The right side of the brain tends to be more creative, fantasy and philosophical thinking, where as the left side of the brain focuses more on the facts, numbers and analytical thinking. When you are daydreaming you are using you right side of your brain. When you are thinking of an original drawing that is also the right side of your brain at work. people who are dominated by the right side oftheir brain tends to be more creative than people who mostly use the left side of their brain. The left side of the brain also play a critical role in movement. In 1999, gazzinger discovered that people suffering from apraxia often have damage to their left brain hemisphere. Because apraxia is an inability to perform familiar purposeful movements he was able to conclude that he left brain hemisphere and movements are related. This might be why those people with left brain dominance tend to excel at activities like dance and athletics. If the left side of your brain is dominant you might also be good at analytical processes. Cognitive psychologist J.Levy conducted a study in 1974 and found some evidence that the left brain goes through information piece by piece while the right hemisphere processes information in a “large picture” fashion. References Speech. (2011) In Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieve from http://www.britannica .com/EBchecked/topic/559032/speech Bailey, R. (2011) Anatomy of the Brain Aldridge, Susan (2009). The Human Brain Funderstanding(2011) retrieved from http:// http://www.funderstanding.com/v2/educators/right-brain-vs-left-brain/