Once a task is learned, the brain lights up less. Stimulation is doing something new - lighting up the brain scan.
Either doing something we already know how to do - or we are doing something new.
The stimulus is sorted and processed at several levels. Kind of stimulus to the brain starts the learning process. Occipital Lobe Back of the brain Primarily responsible for vision Parietal Lobe Top back area of the brain Processes higher sensory and language functions Temporal Lobe Left and right side above and around the ears Primarily responsible for hearing, memory, meaning, and language. Mind The Arts – complex mind and brain process The Arts serves as a sketchpad for thinking Drawing Ability changes as brain develops Engages visual perception Enhances eye-hand coordination Fosters creative expression Brain organizes information based on audio and visual input Strong links between audio and visual learning and reading and learning Eric Jensen Google BookĪround your forehead Involved in purposeful acts like judgment, creativity, problem solving, and planning. Modern brain scientists now know that your left brain is your verbal and rational brain it thinks serially and reduces its thoughts to numbers, letters and words… Your right brain is your nonverbal and intuitive brain it thinks in patterns, or pictures, composed of ‘whole things,’ and does not comprehend reductions, either numbers, letters, or words.' From The Fabric of Mind, by the eminent scientist and neurosurgeon, Richard Bergland. Of the Brain L-Mode (left brain) The verbal, analytic mode Step-by-step style of thinking Using words, numbers and other symbols Strings things out in sequences, like words in a sentence R-Mode (right brain) The visual, perceptual mode Uses visual information and processes All at once, like recognizing the face of a friend Go to: Betty Edwards Ways of Knowing and Seeing Right Brain Argument Simplification of a Very Complex Neurological System Go to Neuroscience for Kids
New research shows that early concept of left brain/right brain is outdated Of Nerve Fibers Connect the left and right hemispheres Allow each side of the brain to exchange information more freely – Crossing the midline. Higher-level mathematicians, problem solvers, and chess players actually have more right-brained activity, but beginners use more left brain. Right Left Hemisphere Processes things more in parts and sequentially Musicians process music in left hemisphere Right Hemisphere Music and Arts have been considered right-brain 'frills' but trained musicians use more left-brain and novice musicians use more right. Brain scanners developed - Brain Imaging Technology (MRI) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (PET) Positron Emission Tomography – Radioactive glucose used to determine activity in different parts of the brain (EEG) Electroencephalography – Electrodes give us readings about electrical output of the brain Enabled researchers to understand and see inside the brain. Soundpiper Musicįor understanding how bring works.