1. 1.REFLECTION QUESTIONS: Are you left-brained or right-brained? What does this mean? How do you know?

2. LEFT OR RIGHT-BRAINED? *Handout: Which one “speaks” to you? Why? *Are You “Left-Brained” or “Right-Brained”? Inventory *Wagner Preference Inventory Are these inventories actually measuring brain-based differences or stereotypes? What do we know?

3. SOME PEOPLE ARE LEFT- BRAINED, OTHERS ARE RIGHT- BRAINED MYTH #4

5. 2.EXAGGERATION OF A KERNEL OF TRUTH Are some people “left-brained” and others “right-brained?” Good evidence that two sides of brain differ in their functions. Injury Brain imaging techniques = differences in activity when doing cognitive tasks

6. RIGHT HEMISPHERE DAMAGE (IGNORES LEFT)

9. DEMONSTRATION *HAVE A PEN/PENCIL IN BOTH HANDS

10. “SPLIT-BRAIN PATIENTS”: RESEARCHERS Roger Sperry Michael Gazzaniga

11. 5.CORPUS CALLOSUM

12. LONGITUDINAL FISSURE (LONG)

13. RESEARCH Evidence for superiority of one or other hemisphere for performing certain tasks: “Split brain” patients 6.Epileptic seizures Sever nerve tracts connecting left/right hemispheres

14. SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN FRONTIERS #7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfGwsAdS9Dc

15. CORPUS CALLOSUM… YOUR INFORMATION HIGHWAY 2 hemispheres share information extensively Two hemispheres are much more similar than different in their functions “Pop-psychology’s” take… too simplistic

16. 10.LEFT IS PROCESSED BY RIGHT. RIGHT IS PROCESSED BY THE LEFT. 11. The Optic Chiasm is the region for cross- over. 12. Visual Cortex – at the back.

17. WHAT DO YOU SEE?

18. WHAT ABOUT THE SNOWMAN SCENE?

19. 13: MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION A word “key” is briefly flashed in the left visual field and the word “ring” is briefly flashed to the right visual field of a split-brain patient. The individual will be able to a. say “key” b. say “ring” c. pick out a key from a box using the right hand d. draw a picture of a key using the right hand

21. HEMISPHERES IN THE BRAIN (RIGHT HANDED) 14.LEFT Language Logic 15.RIGHT Spatial Facial recognition

22. CONCLUSIONS? 16.Left & right hemisphere are RELATIVELY better at different mental activities. Differ in HOW they process tasks rather WHAT they process.

23. SPATIAL RIGHT? Right : better at dealing with a general sense of space Left : becomes active when the person locates objects in specific places

24. CONCLUSIONS 18.Example: Language Left: Better at specifics of speech (grammar and word generation) Right: Better at intonation and emphasis of speech

25. LANGUAGE CENTERS

26. THE BRAIN #6 Language & Speech: Broca’s & Wernicke’s areas http://www.learner.org/resources/series142.html?pop=yes&pid=1574 Paul Broca Tan’s brain

27. HEMISPHERECTOMY: CAMERON MOTT BRAIN PLASTICITY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MKNsI5CWoU

28. RESEARCH ON CREATIVITY & THE BRAIN Creativity does not involved a single brain region or single side of the brain. Depending on the stage of the creative process AND what you are trying to create, you use different brain regions. These brain regions WORK TOGETHER…a TEAM!

29. CONCLUSIONS…YOU ARE WHOLE-BRAINED! It is not that one hemisphere or the other can’t perform a given task; It’s just that one of them can perform it faster and better than the other!

30. IAIN MCGILCHRIST TED TALK - SUMMARY http://www.ted.com/talks/iain_mcgilchrist_the_divided_brain