Cross Train Your Brain?

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Cross Train Your Brain?

Although the brain is still a mystery, there is a pervasive belief that people are either left-brained or right-brained, just as they are left-handed or right-handed. Scientists have not cast this "orientation notion" aside, but they are claiming increasingly that regardless of which hemisphere "predominates" in an individual, we both use parts of both hemispheres a great deal of the time, and that the two sides generally collaborate to enable us to be who we are and to do what we do. This is of great interest to scientists, educators, psychologists, psychiatrists and to reader of The Braintenance Blog.

They say that the "right brain" is the seat of creativity, imagination, artistic talent, deep lingering emotions and a certain type of 'mood memory', while the "left brain" gets more intimately involved in processing intellectual information, associative intelligence, computations and the body's principal maintenance and logic functions. Both hemispheres are separated by a cluster of cells forming a barrier or wall called the corpus callosum.

Yet with all the talk about "left brain" activities and abilities versus "right brain" activities and abilities, neurologists have been working very hard to debunk the whole notion of this clear division, and instead claim (through experimentation and contrarian conjecture) that the many different functions tend to be centered in either of the two hemispheres. Read on...

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