The brain has its own functions and is divided into two hemispheres: the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere. Also, has its own way of processing information and each lobe has its specific roles. What happens when damage to the brain occurs? How does it rewire itself to process information or learn new activities?. Damage to each hemisphere of the brain has different effects on the way individuals learn since each hemisphere is in charge of different functions. Furthermore, the brain processes information differently according to a person’s learning style.
First, Let us explore on the functions of each hemisphere of the brain and how it works. The left hemisphere is associated with being logical. The right hemisphere of the brain is related with being emotional. The majority of the population is known to be right handed; therefore, the left side of the brain is controlling the right side of the body. The human brain is a very complex organ. The communication between these two hemispheres is accomplished by a series of electrical and chemical signals between neurons; the electrical process communicates through the movement from four ions: sodium, potassium, calcium, and chloride. On the other hand, the chemical communication process contains chemical messengers such as dopamine, serotonin, endorphins and acetylcholine, just to name a few (Wolfe, 2010). After reviewing some basic points in the transmission of communication between neurons, let us focus on learning and the brain.
More in depth, learning plays a role in brain cells growth. Dendrites sprout from the cell body of a neuron which increases in size and number in response to learned skills (Willis, 2008). Also, Willis (2008) mentions that learning ...
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Nowadays, it is widely known that the right and left hemisphere have different functions. The two hemispheres are equally important in a daily life basis. Nevertheless, in the 1960’s this was not common knowledge. Even though today the importance of the brain hemispheres is common knowledge, people don’t usually know to whom attribute this findings. One of the people who contributed to form a more defined picture about the brain hemispheres and their respective functions was Roger Wolcott Sperry, with the split brain research. Roger Sperry did more contributions than the split brain research, but this is his most important and revolutionary research in the psychological field. Thanks to the split brain research, Sperry proved that the two hemispheres of the brain are important, they work together and whatever side of the brain is more capable of doing the task is the hemisphere that takes the lead.
The human brain is a very complex organ which controls everything that makes us who we are. The function of the brain is broken down into two hemispheres, each responsible for different aspects of the thought process. The left and right hemispheres impact learning by directly controlling the process in which information is analyzed utilizing each hemispheres specific function.
The effects depend on the part of the brain that is affected, but every stroke is different. For some people, the effects of stroke are mild and last a short time. Another stroke may cause more severe or lasting disability. The effects of a stroke will depend on the part of your brain that has been damaged; how bad the injury is; and your general health when the stroke occurs. The right half of the brain controls the left side of the body and vice versa. For example, weakness or paralysis in the left arm may result from a stroke on the right side of the brain. For most people, the left side of the brain controls languages include: (1) talking, (2) reading, (3) writing, and (4) understanding. The right side controls perceptual skills including (1) making sense of what you see, (2) hear, and (3) touch. The right side also controls spatial skills include: (1) judging size, (2) speed, (3) distance, and (4) position (What Causes Stroke,
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The textbook mentioned how it is possible to live with one side of the brain (Lilienfeld et al., 2016). However, I was still a bit confused on this concept because I have always thought that you need both hemispheres working together to function properly. As I watched the TedTalk, I was further able to change my understanding of the concept that you can live with one hemisphere, you would just lose some functions associated with that hemisphere, as Jill explained (Taylor, 2008). Not only that, but from the textbook I never understood how you would feel without one of your hemispheres not functioning properly, I personally thought that you would lose some abilities and it would be difficult to survive. However, the TedTalk changed this understanding of mine because, like Jill, although she lost some functions, she lost all her stresses, and she felt peace, as she states, “So here I am in this space, and my job, and any stress related to my job - it was gone. And I felt lighter in my body. And imagine all of the relationships in the external world and any stressors related to any of those - they were gone. And I felt this sense of peacefulness” (Taylor, 2008). It gave her a whole new world and it never occurred to me that this could happen, so it really expanded on the knowledge obtained from the
The right hemisphere also can decipher language to get an understanding of words or phrases’ figurative meanings such as sarcasm (Murteira, & Santos, 2013). The brain’s ability to remember faces, remember how a thing feels like, express various emotions are all controlled by the right hemisphere (stroke, 2018). When the right hemisphere is impaired from a stroke the affected person could have anomia/agnosia (unable to recognize and/or name faces/objects). A 20-year-old student that receives a stroke on this side of the brain will mostly notice a difference in their social behaviors. The student will notice damages to their relationships with people, motor skills on the left side, visual interpretations (such as remembering their friends), and emotional reasonings. The only aspect of education that would suffer in a stroke of the right hemisphere would be assignments requiring subjective thinking/analysis because the emotional aspects of this person would be impaired (Schonbeck & Davidson
Our brains weigh about three pounds and are divided into two similar looking but functionally different hemisphere, the right hemisphere and the left hemisphere. Both of which are connected by a large bundle of nerves called the corpus collosum. In some people with severe seizure disorders such as epilepsy, it was found that if this bundle of nerves was severed their seizure would either cease or a the very least be better controlled. From this surgical procedure it was discovered that the two hemispheres had different methods of processing information, as well as controlling parts of the body. The left hemisphere controls the right have of the body and the right hemisphere controls the left side.
After years of research the human brain has been dissected and analyzed on how it functions when faced with different aspects of life. The brain itself is two hemispheres that work together in harmony to understand the world that surrounds it and learns new things to survive and thrive. The two sides of the brain learn in different ways and give us a better understanding by sharing the information they gather with each other. Even though each side learns differently from the other, if one hemisphere gets damaged the remaining side will do its best to comprehend how the dead side would normally learn.
The brain is known to have two hemispheres, the left and the right. Both of these hemispheres share the responsibility of brain processing and they communicate their differences through the corpus callosum. A seizure treatment was developed in the 1950s that severed the corpus callosum in order to reduce the over firing of neurons. An outcome to these procedures resulted in a disagreement in the left and right hemisphere. Since the two hemispheres could not communicate, they performed two separate processes. When deciding on which pants to choose, one patient had his left hand pull up on his pants
The article begins by stating what is seen as common knowledge, that the brain has two hemispheres. The right and left hemisphere. The left hemisphere controls the ability to use and understand language, while the right hemisphere controls depth-perception. Damage to the left side of the brain due to strokes and other brain injuries can cause the victim to loose different degrees of speech ability. They theory of each hemisphere working separate as their own mental systems with their own abilities for learning, remembering and understanding the world is show in this experiment.
Throughout the course of history many people in time had no idea that many creatures of life had brains. With remarkable breakthroughs in technology and through human ability to take pictures of the human brain through head scans, scientists have discovered and mapped out the human brain. As neuroscientists understand how the brain works, discovery of brain-based learning has been a growing field ever since. Education is extremely important for human beings because the more educated we are as a society the better we contribute to society. Knowledge is extremely powerful and as a future educator, understanding how the brain works and developing lesson plans surrounding the inner workings of the brain will allow learning to manifest in the classroom.
The human brain is a reliable mechanism that is capable of performing many multifaceted tasks. The brain is composed of numerous parts that work as an auxiliary to the brain, which help it function each and every day. Each individual has two portions of the brain inside his or her head, a left and a right hemisphere. The right hemisphere controls the left hand, musical and artistic ability, perception of space, imagination and fantasizing, body control, and awareness. The left portion of the brain is involved with the right hand, logical thinking, language ability, writing, math, and science work. The brain is able to decipher which side it needs to use in order to complete a subjective task. Each ability is dependent upon the brain to process the knowledge that is needed at certain times.
In the video "Powerful Stoke of Insight," Dr. Taylor share a personal story of how she experienced when she had a stoke years ago. She vividly illustrated the distinct functions of left hemisphere and right hemisphere. Since her stoke occurred in the left hemisphere, she had a hard time to process language during the tragic event happened. She was paralysis and could not understand any of the word from 911 telephone operator when she finally reached the phone. According to Dr. Taylor, "Our right human hemisphere is all about this present moment, [and] our left hemisphere thinks linearly and methodically." Due to the reason that her stoke damaged her left hemisphere, she could not think logically at the moment. This presentation thoroughly explain the concept of lateralization in biological psychology research method. I find it very interesting because I never learn that each hemisphere do in charge of different functions that affecting our
Electrical and chemical. As a child, more and more neurons are formed, and they are create links to one another, or synapses. So as kids grow older, the neurons branch out to make new connections. If neurons don’t form connections with each other and with other structures in the brain, they eventually die off. We are fortunate that we have many more neurons at birth than we need, so it is natural that some of the neurons die off. There is no way to replace neurons once they die off, but the neurons we do have can continue to grow our whole lives. Meaning that they can form new branches and connections with other neurons through new experiences. Although as people age, the connection between neurons weaken, by learning new things, new connections between neurons form and the synapse can change. So, as we practice a new skill, we actually stimulate a pattern of electrical signals through our neurons. In order to learn a new skill, it takes doing it over and over again so that the same nerve impulses create the correct and desired result. That is why it is important to not only have hours and hours of practice to perfect a skill, but practicing it correctly will also impact your success with the skill. If we practice something incorrectly a whole bunch of times, we will only increase our chances of doing it wrong. Although it may seems easier to learn how to do something
...re of the brain is just half of the brain so why is it the only half being explored in school? This failure to confront the other hemisphere causes weakening in the right hemisphere since the right hemisphere isn?t being exercised.