I.

Introduction

“Study of Human Behavior,” it’s the often answer of the people when you asked them

what Psychology is. What they do not know is that Psychology is not just a study of

Human Behavior, it’s also deals with emotion, perception of an individual and everything

that affect his whole being. Psychology is a broad topic but what caught my attention

about this subject are the Left and Right Hemisphere. One way of looking at learning

styles is to determine your hemispheric dominance. We must be able to know if you’re a

right brained or a left brained person. The two hemispheres of the brain are connected by

a thick band of nerve fibers known as corpus callosum which sends message back and

forth between the hemispheres. A brain research confirms that both sides of the brain are

involved in nearly every human activity and that the left side of the brain is the seat of

language and processes in a logical and sequential order while the right side is more

visual and processes intuitively and randomly. Of course, all of the people seem to have a

dominant side. It’s not that all of us is biologically right brained or left brained; it is

because sometimes we are just more comfortable with the learning strategies

characteristics of one over the other. What most of us doing is lengthening our list of

strategies for learning how to learn and trying to determine what best work for us. We

can use and develop both sides of the brain, but because of the seat of our preferences

probably has more neural connections, learning may occur faster. This term paper will

look at some at differences between the left and right processes of the brain. No one is

totally left brained or right brained, just as you have a dominant hand, dominant eye and a

dominant foot, you also probably have a dominant side of the brain.
 Submitted by:

Bryan Christopher P. Sioson

Submitted to:

Ms. Maria Teresa Manicio

Title: Are you a right brained or left brained person?

 Thesis: Right Hemisphere and Left Hemisphere are

completely different from each other.

I. Introduction

II. Definition

III. Brain Hemisphere

A. Left Hemisphere

B. Right Hemisphere

IV. Data Analysis

V. Conclusion

VI. References.

II. Definition

Encarta Dictionary defined the word brained as an organ of thought and feeling.

According to them, brain is the controlling center of the nervous system and it is also
connected to the spinal cord and enclosed in the cranium. The brain is composed of a

lot of tissue and one of them is the neuroglia which controls a person’s thought and

emotion and also regulates bodily activity. The Brain has two parts or two hemispheres

--- the left and the right hemisphere, which we will discuss in this paper.

III. Brain Hemispheres

A. Left Hemisphere

The Left Hemisphere of our brain is more on the scientific skills, numerical skills

and language. It is connected to the right side of our body. That’s the reason why they

say that individuals who are predominantly right sided tend to be artsy, good with

math and are more visual in nature. It also produces speech, analysis, time and

sequence and it recognizes letters, numbers and words. Individuals who are left

hemispheric deals with input one at a time and processes information in a linear

manner. It process from part to whole. It takes pieces, lines them up, arrange them in

logical order and arrived at a conclusion. The left brain has also no trouble processing

symbols. They deal with symbols such as words, numbers and mathematical

notations. They are more comfortable with linguistic and mathematical endeavors.

Another thing about left brained persons is that they deal things the way they are.

They are easily affected by the environment and they usually adjust to it. They are

also known as rules followers. They want to know the rule and follow it. In fact,

when there are no rules in a situation, they will probably make up rules to follow

them. Left Brained students will know is aware of the consequences if they do not

pass the papers on time or they failed an examination. The left hemispheric person is
reality based and deals with the reality rather than the fantasy. It also deals with one

input at a time, responsible for verbal expression, language and arithmetic operations.

It does logical and analytical thinking and has the seat of reason or they are good in

reasoning. The best jobs that suit for the left hemispheric person are wordsmiths and

engineers.

B. Right Hemisphere

Right Hemisphere on the other hand is more on the creative side of an individual. If

you can see, left hemisphere strategies are the one often used in the classroom, so

sometimes Right Hemisphere feel inadequate. However, we can be flexible and adapt

material to the right side of our brain. First, let’s now discuss the function and

characteristics of the right hemisphere. Obviously, all the characteristics of the left

hemisphere contrast to the characteristics of the right hemisphere. If the left

hemisphere is connected to the right side of the body, the right hemisphere is

connected to the left side. It is more on creativity, patterns, spatial awareness and

context. It also recognizes faces, places, and objects. They learn whole first then parts

and is stimulated by appearance. They prefer pictures, graphs, and charts rather than

the lecture to understand the lesson faster. Right Brained student also takes a lot of

time to write a paper because they are more on non verbal communication. They can

integrate many inputs at once or what we called multi-tasking. They also processes

information more diffusely and simultaneously and deal with time, responsible for

verbal expression, language and arithmetic operation. Right Hemispheric Individual

 has the seat of passion and dreams that’s why it is being said that it is the crucial side

for artists, craftsman, and musicians

IV. Data Analysis

All the information that I have gathered have the same perception or should I say belief

about the different hemispheres in our brain. All of the data unifies that the left

hemisphere is for the speech and mathematical side of the person, so we can say that

left brained person are good at math and language. On the contrary, right hemisphere is

more on the creative side of the person. It is more on the person’s passion and artistic

side. When it comes to learning, left brained people understand the lesson faster than

the right brained, but right brained individual can do a lot of things than the left brained

because they can do different things at the same time or multi-tasking. The right and

left hemisphere of our brain is very important for us, but it is much better if we are

going to learn how these two hemispheres can work together for us to have a better

decision and better learning.

V. Conclusion

It is a well known for a fact that the brain is divided into two different hemispheres

which is the left and the right hemisphere. Both of them have different functions and
characteristics. Left Hemisphere is more on the cognitive side of the brain while the

Right Hemisphere is more on the imaginative or creative side. This paper has only

touched briefly the truth about the two hemispheres. All of the misconceptions has been

answered and clarify. We can use what we have learned in this paper by improving our

knowledge, talents and skills. We can also improve our techniques in learning by

determining what dominant brain we have. If we’re a left brained person, we can easily

learn if were going to study the part of our lesson first and for the right brained person,

the whole lesson then the part that is need to study.

VI. References

Different Between Left and Right Hemisphere. http://frank.mtsu.edu/~studskl/hd/hemis

Left vs. Right Brain: Which Hemisphere Dominates you?. Sayeed, Tasneem.

http://hubpages.com/hub/Left_Right_Brain

Right Brain vs. Left Brain. Josephson, Brian.

http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/articles/dominance/index.htm