Re: CRACK Right Hemisphere Deep Creator 2.3.1.1433
Sofie Kovalcheck
This morning I sat down to write about how we can all learn to better use the right hemispheres of our brains. For 30 minutes, I tapped restlessly at a laptop. Nothing much happened, idea-wise. Flat beer.
Bright Brain Thinking empowers and educates students, teachers and professionals on the importance of whole brain thinking. Catherine Conlin PhD, CCC-SLP is the creator of Bright Brain Thinking. She uses scientifically proven methods in her passion for teaching individuals how to tap into their naturally dominant way of processing information. By understanding the brain hemisphere's distinct functions or strengths, we are better able to communicate, learn and succeed in the classroom, workplace and in our relationships.
During the first night of sleep in a new place but not the second, slow wave activity dampened in all 11 subjects, suggesting their sleep was less deep. But, this reduction only occurred in the left brain hemispheres of these subjects, specifically in a collection of neural circuits known as the default-mode network.
This alertness translates into swifter reflexes too. In a third experiment, the researchers told a new set of 11 subjects to tap their fingers if they noticed the annoying tone. On the first night in a new place, people tapped more readily when the tone played in the right ear and bothered the night-watch hemisphere. They also reacted twice as fast and were more likely to wake up altogether.
Of the 35 adults tested in the study, all but three were right-handed. A larger group size would be needed to determine if the night-watch hemisphere is always the left side of the brain, or if it switches with handedness.
Both hemispheres pay attention to the world, but one (the left) does so via highly focused attention to details, in order to manipulate and use objects such as tools, whereas the other (the right) does so via broad, vigilant, open, uncommitted, sustained attention to the whole world, in order to capture the big picture.
This is an approach that infuriates the more literal-minded, and because their voices have, at times, been so loud in our cultural conversation, many a believer has been tempted to follow their example, arguing that God can be known (or even proven) in the same way as we might know a fact about nature or prove a mathematical equation. The view through the right hemisphere disabuses us of this notion.
The brain can be divided down the middle lengthwise into a right and a left hemisphere. Most of the areas responsible for speech, language processing, and reading are in the left hemisphere, and for this reason we will focus all of our descriptions and figures on the left side of the brain. Within each hemisphere, we find the following four brain lobes (see Figure 1).
Other structural analyses of the brains of people with and without RD have found differences in hemispherical asymmetry. Specifically, most brains of right-handed, nondyslexic people are asymmetrical with the left hemisphere being larger than the same area on the right.
Shaywitz et al. (2002) also found that the children who were good decoders had more activation in the areas important for reading in the left hemisphere and less in the right hemisphere than the children with RD.
They suggested that for children with RD, disruption in the rear reading systems in the left hemisphere that are critical for skilled, fluent reading (Area B in Figure 2) leads the children to try and compensate by using other, less efficient systems (Area A in Figure 2 and systems in the right hemisphere).
One year after intervention, the experimental group showed increased activity in the occipito-temporal region important for automatic, fluent reading (Area B in Figure 2), while at both time points the level of compensatory activation in the right hemisphere decreased.
Marketing and sales professionals often pay little attention to how the consumer thinks and processes information. Research has shown that the right hemisphere of the brain processes emotional information and the left processes logical information such as product demonstrations. This knowledge can help to avoid blunders that might turn interest into disinterest.
Communications that evoke emotional responses typically produce a high level of processing activity in the right hemisphere. Unfortunately, many communications that draw the viewer, listener or reader into an emotional scene, abruptly or quickly cut to product information. Deep inside the brain, this action causes trouble. The right hemisphere is still highly active making it difficult for the brain to process words (the brain only processes images). In short, the timing can muddle the message.
The show, directed by Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdie, taps into a deep desire to have distance from the persona we play in the workplace, to not be defined by our jobs, and to make the hours at the desk skip by as fast as possible. Show creator Dan Erickson was inspired to write the pilot while working "a series of office jobs" in LA, wishing he could "disassociate for the next eight hours" while also being deeply disturbed by the thought, he told the Seattle Times.
Veins draining the brain parenchyma may be divided into superficial and deep veins. The superficial veins primarily drain the cerebral cortex, whereas the deep veins drain the deep structures within the hemispheres. These veins do not typically follow the arterial supply and there is significant variation in anatomy between different subjects. Another notable feature of cerebral veins is that they lack muscular walls and valves.
Though it appears to be similar to features of our language, music is more rooted in the primitive brain structures. For most people, language is processed on the left side of the brain (the left hemisphere), and for a long time, it was thought that music has a more right-hemisphere bias. However, a closer look reveals that music activates many parts of our brain, including the so-called limbic system of the brain, which is involved in motivation, emotion, learning, and memory.
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