Planning hemispheres of the brain

December 5 / 2017

Stage: b) planning

Approaches to learning: Information management and media literacy skills because I searched for relevant information through a lot of different sources that I constantly evaluated and decided wether they were reliable or not.

During the creation of this entry, I found myself constantly struggling when finding information about the hemispheres. Even though there is a lot of information regarding the lobes, cells, neurons and other parts of the brain, there is not much information available about the right and left hemispheres. Eventually, after looking through a lot of different sources I was able to find some interesting facts about each hemisphere of the human brain.

Right hemisphere: - It controls the left side of the body

- It is the more artistic and creative side of the brain

- It perceives and identifies environmental and nonverbal sounds

- It appears it can independently recall on certain memories and act upon them without any help from the other side (left hemisphere).

- Involved in the analysis of visual stimuli such as depth perception and visual closure.

- It is involved in the production of dreams during REM sleeps.

- It controls the comprehension of visual, facial and verbal emotions.

- When the right hemisphere is injured, there might be mental consequences such as depression, hysteria, emotional disinhibition and impulsivity amongst others.

- Has an influence in art awareness and intuition 

https://www.mayfieldclinic.com/PE-AnatBrain.htm

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2461390

http://brainmadesimple.com/left-and-right-hemispheres.html

Left hemisphere: - It controls speech, comprehension, arithmetics and writing

- It controls the right side of the body

- It is the academic and logical side of the brain.

- It aids in science and mathematics

- Involved in reasoning, language, number skills, logic, and analytical thoughts amongst others.

- Injury to this area may result in aphasia (problems with language and speech)

https://www.mayfieldclinic.com/PE-AnatBrain.htm

http://brainmadesimple.com/left-and-right-hemispheres.html

http://www.braininjury-explanation.com/consequences/impact-by-brain-area/left-hemisphere