Brain Dominance and its Effect on Learning

Brain Dominance and its Effect on Learning

Structurally, the brain is a machine awesomely complex. It remains one of the things that man is still not fully aware about. As for its functions, consciousness represents only a small part of our psyche (Oflatz, 2011; Faith, 2009). The number of neurons containing the brain-only in the cortex, may be estimated at ten billion. And the number of connections between them beyond all imagination. Two different people living in our brain, like Siamese twins joined along the midline. One is verbal, analytical, dominant (Gibson, 2002; Morris, 2005). The other is artistic but silent, almost uncanny in its entirety. These are the left and right hemispheres of our brain, consisting of two halves joined by a complex network of nerve fibers that form a thick 'cable' called the corpus callosum (Morris, 2006; Oflatz, 2011). The connection with the nervous system determines that the left hemisphere controls the right side of the body, and the right hemisphere controls the left side.

If you cut this wire, as it should be done in some cases of severe epilepsy, occur a series of curious circumstances (Faith, 2009; Gibson, 2002). The left brain (which is hosting the speech center), no longer knows what he is doing the right, but insists on finding excuses for what he has done half mute, and operates under the illusion of being a one person. Among mammals, man is the only one who has developed various uses for each half of your brain (Morris, 2005; Morris, 2006). This asymmetry, which we all recognize when we say if we are right or left, is the glorious mechanism through which man is able to speak. It's what separates us from the apes (Oflatz, 2011; Faith, 2009; Gibson, 2002).

The functional organization of the human brain follows specific principles of order. Thus for instance tactile sensations that are perceived over adjacent skin areas, in the corresponding part of the brain also processed in adjacent representations. To take advantage of the position of one's body in space, even with their eyes closed, the brain processes different sensory stimuli, which are perceived by muscles or skin, which is enough just not to determine the absolute position, because it requires knowledge of size and shape of the body parts and their relationship to each other, because no signal is delivered directly to the brain information about this metric properties of the limbs (Gibson, 2002). Therefore a general over-fitting but especially learning advisers widely discussed are the different functions of the two hemispheres of the cerebrum and the consequences that will result from this supposedly for learning. The Cerebrum is the evolutionarily youngest part of the human brain. Studies have shown that there is a division of labor between the two halves: the left hemisphere functions are attributed reasoning, language and analytical thinking, right musicality, creativity and spatial imagination. Moreover, both halves respectively control the movements of the other side of the body (Morris, ...