ALPHABETICAL BRAIN VOCABULARY Flash Card #14 - Details WHAT IS YOUR "DIVIDED CEREBRUM" AND WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT? Your DIVIDED CEREBRUM has two halves or TWO HEMISPHERES that interact constantly. This separation of your two CEREBRAL HEMISPHERES produces your unique human consciousness, which is known as "lateralization" of your brain structure, since each half has its own specializations as well as some overlapping feedback functions. Your LEFT HEMISPHERE is called your "Left Brain," which controls the RIGHT SIDE of your body! Your RIGHT HEMISPHERE is called your "Right Brain" which controls the LEFT SIDE of your body! Your LEFT BRAIN specializes in analytical thought, including abstractions, structure, discipline and rules, time sequences, mathematics, categorizing, logic and rationality and deductive reasoning, knowledge, details, definitions, planning and goals, words (written, spoken, and heard), productivity and efficiency, science and technology, stability, extraversion, physical activity. Your RIGHT BRAIN specializes in the "softer" aspects of life, which include intuition, feelings and sensitivity, emotions, daydreaming and visualizing, creativity (including art and music), color, spatial awareness, first impressions, rhythm, spontaneity and impulsiveness, the physical senses, risk-taking, flexibility and variety, learning by experience, relationships, mysticism, play and sports, introversion, humor, motor skills, the left side of the body, and a holistic way of perception that recognizes patterns and similarities and then synthesizes those elements into new forms. [Source of detailed characteristics of each Hemisphere = Wikipedia 5-15-12] Return to #14: DIVIDED CEREBRUM or BRAIN FACTS MATRIX