Left Brain, Right Brain: Facts, Trivia, and Quizzes
Introduction BRAIN BATTLE You're back at school after staying home sick yesterday To catch up you borrow notes from your friends Sam and Erin Sam's notes are super organized with neat lists The ideas in Erin's notes are connected with swirly arrows Doodles fill the page It's obvious that your friends do not take in data the same way It's almost as if their brains work differently intuition
HALF BRAINED In the past some scientists believed people used one side of their brain more than the other Each side was linked with certain functions or traits They thought right brained people were creative and emotional And they believed left brained people were more rational and logical Scientists now know that this theory is false People use both sides of their brain equally But the theory is based on the ways people make decisions and learn And it can be a great way to learn more yourself about
Chapter 1 BRAIN BELIEFS People have been interested in the brain and how it works since ancient times As early as 1700 BCE ancient Egyptians wrote of its anatomy People weren't sure exactly what the brain's purpose was be
3 MIND RIND In the 1960s scientist Roger Wolcott Sperry knew that the brain is divided into two sections called hemispheres But he discovered that either hemisphere can continue to function even if the other half does not Sperry also confirmed that different areas of the brain control different functions For example speech processing takes place in a different hemisphere of the brain than processing art or music creative It's True Your brain hemispheres control your body movements But they do this in a crisscross fashion The right brain controls the movement of the left side of your body The left brain controls the movement of the right side of body your
