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Hemisphere Of The Brain Homo Erectus
1,433 wordsThe ability of humans to learn and retain knowledge is an incredible power source and also a dominant characteristic of the human species. The intricate abilities of the mind allow for humans to learn skills and to have the power to control and dominate the world they live in by means of learned behavior. The two cerebral hemispheres of the left and right specialize in motor and sensory skills which specialize the social established beliefs and behaviors unique to humans. In writing The Social B...
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Hemisphere Of The Brain Left Handed
1,449 words... tus were also unique, as he realized the environment could be controlled for personal improvement (Gazzaniga, 149). This was evident in the new nomadic behavior of hunters and gathers as populations behavior become more nomadic As a hominid continued to evolve the Neanderthal played an important role in the changes of brain activity and behavior. The Neanderthals dominant influence of the Wenickes and Broca areas of the brain allowed for the specialization of skill in tool making, shelter, a...
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American Psychiatric Association Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders
1,488 wordsA Proposal for the Further Study of Great Writers It could be said that the study of Literature and the study of Psychology are a most incompatible mix. Properly schooled in one or the other of these two disciplines, it is the psychologist who will point out the "left brain" is attributed with the functions of Analyzing, Mathematics, and step-by-step Reasoning and the "right brain" is likewise concerned with Creative Thinking and Visual-Pictorial skills. Accordingly, people will often find a Nic...
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Long Term Memory Speech And Language
1,076 wordsRecent brain scan research has found abnormalities in the brains of stutterers, and promises new treatments for stuttering using drugs and computerized devices. No differences between stutterers and non-stutterers have been found during silent rest (Ingham, 1996). During fluent speech, stutterers' brains look similar to non-stutterers' brains. But during stuttering, cerebral activity changes dramatically. The most striking difference is that left-hemisphere areas active during normal speech beco...
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Left Brain Left Side
952 wordsHemispheric dominance is half of the brain that tends to exercise greater control over certain functions like movement language of the right or left side of the body. I am more to the right side of my brain but Im not that far away from the middle. So this makes me middle right dominant. I think people in the middle right use intuition and creativity to achieve certain things, instead of making an outline o detailed plan of the action. If you plan too much it limits things that could happen some...
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R Amp D Creative Thought
2,292 wordsLeaders know in their gut that creativity and innovation are the life blood of their organization. New ideas can lead to programs that are superior to those that are already going on or planned in the organization and which would have been divested or never initiated had a better idea or program come along. So, the mission of every leader should be to search continually for ideas and programs that are superior to the ones the organization is currently committed to. In a word, it's called PROGRES...
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Left Brain Scientific Evidence
1,038 wordsLeft, right, left, right -- the marching song of the two-mind movement. To hear them talk, you'd think that everyone had a second mind, suppressed by the first. That the vocal left brain dominated the poor artistic right brain. Preventing it from getting a creative thought in edgewise. Soon there will be a consciousness raising movement: Stop referring to the left cerebral hemisphere as the "dominant" one. Invent a more egalitarian term like co-chairperson. Co-chair hemisphere? Alas. Were cerebr...
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Side Of The Brain Corpus Callosum
1,036 words... e right ear, most visual-spatial functions are not exclusive to the right brain. A common one impaired by strokes is the ability to put things back together again -- to reassemble the parts of a disassembled flashlight or toaster. Right-side damage causes such "construction apraxias" only about twice as often as comparable left-brain damage. The chances are about the same that map-reading will be impaired. Dressing apraxias, a conceptual inability to match up sleeves with arms when getting d...
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Corpus Callosum Feminine Traits
3,785 wordsLeft and Right Brain The article in which I chose to examine is called Right Brain, Left Brain: Fact and Fiction, written by Jerry Levy. In the past fifteen years or so there has been a lot of talk of left brain and right brain people. Levy's reason for righting this article was clearly to stop the misconceptions and show the truth about how our brain hemispheres operate. Levy first explores the myth of the left brain and right brain theory. She states that generally people see the left hemisphe...
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Left Hemisphere Left Brain
739 wordsThe article in which I chose to examine is called Right Brain, Left Brain: Fact and Fiction, written by Jerry Levy. In the past fifteen years or so there has been a lot of talk of left brain and right brain people. Levy's reason for righting this article was clearly to stop the misconceptions and show the truth about how our brain hemispheres operate. Levy first explores the myth of the left brain and right brain theory. She states that generally people see the left hemisphere of the brain contr...
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Left Hemisphere Studies Showed
662 wordsThe human brain is a miraculous organ. It regulates thought, memory, judgment, personal identity, and other aspects of what is commonly called mind. It also regulates aspects of the body including body temperature, blood pressure, and the activity of internal organs to help the body respond to its environment and to maintain the bodys health. In fact, the brain is considered so central to human well-being and survival that the death of the brain is considered in many parts of the world to be equ...
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Side Of The Brain Corpus Callosum
1,145 wordsYour brain has two sides. And each has a distinctly different way of looking at the world. Do you realize that in order for you to read this article, the two sides of your brain must do completely different things? The more we integrate those two sides, the more integrated we become as people. Integration not only increases our ability to solve problems more creatively, but to control physical maladies such as epilepsy and migrants, replace certain damaged brain functions and even learn to "...
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Left Brain Left Hemisphere
1,240 wordsSavant Syndrome is a rare, but spectacular, condition in which persons with various developmental disabilities, including Autistic Disorder, have astonishing islands of ability or brilliance that stand in stark, markedly incongruous contrast to the over-all handicap. In some, savant skills are remarkable simply in contrast to the handicap (talented savants). In others, with a much rarer form of the condition, the ability or brilliance is not only spectacular in contrast to the handicap, but woul...
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