I hope you managed to catch my earlier post featuring a talk by Sir Ken Robinson. In it he talks about how we are “educating” children from their “waist up to their heads and slightly to one side”.
Sir Robinson was eluding to the concept of brain lateralization.
The term brain lateralization refers to the fact that although the two halves of the human brain (cerebral hemispheres) look pretty much alike, they are actually quite different in their functions. Each hemisphere has functional specializations.
Below is a listing of what is generally widely-accepted today as these “specializations”.
Sir Robinson was eluding to the concept of brain lateralization.
The term brain lateralization refers to the fact that although the two halves of the human brain (cerebral hemispheres) look pretty much alike, they are actually quite different in their functions. Each hemisphere has functional specializations.
Below is a listing of what is generally widely-accepted today as these “specializations”.
LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS--------------------------- RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic--------------------------------------------------------uses feelings
detail oriented--------------------------------------------------"big picture" oriented
facts rule---------------------------------------------------------imagination rules
words and language--------------------------------------------symbols and images
present and past------------------------------------------------present and future
math and science-----------------------------------------------philosophy and religion
knowing----------------------------------------------------------believes
acknowledges---------------------------------------------------appreciates
order/pattern perception----------------------------------------spatial perception
knows object name--------------------------------------------- knows object function
reality based-----------------------------------------------------fantasy based
forms strategies-------------------------------------------------presents possibilities
practical--------------------------------------------------------impetuous
safe--------------------------------------------------------------risk-taking
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Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci............ Weeping Woman by Pablo Picasso
Both renowned and esteemed artists.
I wonder which side of their brains they used more to paint with?
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