Left Brain vs Right Brain

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The Left Brain VS the Right Brain: How Does this Affect Learning No one processes information the same way, but if someone discovers how they process information best they will learn more efficiently and in less time (Hopper 2003). It is good to know this learning style so someone can respond most effectively to what is being presented (Hopper 2003). We are going to discuss how Hemispheric Dominance (left or right brain dominance) influences learning styles, but first we are going to look at how the brain works. “If we understand the brain, we will understand both its capacities and its limits for thoughts, emotions, reasoning, love and every other aspect of human life”, says Norman Weinberger a Neuroscientist at the University of California. The human brain weighs three pounds and has about 100 billion cells (Johnson 2010). A lot of information comes in the spinal cord at the base of the brain, but vision and hearing go straight to the brain instead of through the spinal cord (Johnson 2010). Information enters the spinal cord and goes up the middle of the brain, and branches out like a tree and goes to the surface of the brain, which is called gray matter because it is gray due to the color of the cell bodies (Johnson 2010). Everyone has two eyes, two hands, two legs, so why not two brains? The brain is divided in half, a right and left hemisphere (Johnson 2010). They communicate with each other through nerve fibers called corpus callosum (kidport 1998-2012). The right brain is often called the creative side, because it is more dominant in creative activities (kidport 1998-2012). The right side of the brain is more visual oriented and tends to view information as a whole. It’s also involved in special abilities, such as judging the position of things in space, and knowing your body position (kidport 1998-2012). Right brain students process information more

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