A recent article from NPR detailing the right brain/left brain controversy. Below is the direct quote copied and pasted from the article. But read the rest of it, its all good stuff! The claim that the left hemisphere is the seat of language, however, is a little different. That idea comes from observations that damage to the left hemisphere (for example, due to a stroke) is often associated with difficulties producing language, a problem known as aphasia. Similar damage to the right hemisphere is much less likely to cause aphasia. In fact, for most people, the left hemisphere does play a much more important role in the ability to speak than the right hemisphere does. However, this does not mean that the right hemisphere is nonverbal. My laboratory studies the hemispheres ability to comprehend (rather than produce) language, and we, like others, have shown that both hemispheres can figure out the meaning of words and sentences – and that they have differing strengths and weaknesses when it comes to comprehending. So, like other complex skills, the ability to understand what we read or what someone is saying to us requires both hemispheres, working together and separately. ~Federmeier So basically, the brain is complicated. Any effort to explain it with a simple, black and white hypothesis will almost certainly result in misinformation. npr.org/blogs/13.7/2013/12/02/248089436/the-truth-about-the-left-brain-right-brain-relationship?utm_content=socialflow&utm_campaign=nprfacebook&utm_source=npr&utm_medium=facebook
Posted on: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 02:43:12 +0000
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