3. Left/Right Hemisphere Specialization
LEFT (a little bigger)
RIGHT
Holistic thought
Seeing “big” picture before understanding details
Intuition
Insight based upon incomplete patterns or “hunches”
Creativity
Demonstrative with minimal word use, understanding relationships
Art & Music
Putting pieces together to form “wholes”
Analytic thought
Step by step process
Logic
Conclusions based upon a logical or consecutive order
Language
Using words to name/describe/define
Math & Science
Number use, awareness of time, symbols, facts & linear reasoning

9. Take your dominant hand and make a clock-wise circle.
Now take your opposite foot and circle it counter-clockwise
Easy, right?
Now try and do the same thing, but with both dominant hand/foot
Try these hemispheric activities…

12. The Corpus Callosum

13. Split Brain Patients
Those who due to epilepsy, have their corpus callosum removed.
Contralateral control: right controls left and vice versa.

14. Testing the Divided Brain

15. Vision Left Visual Field is illustrated in RED
Right Visual Field is illustrated in BLUE

16. Decreasing Left-handers