The brain is a complex and interconnected system, the largest and functionally important part of the central nervous system. Its functions include processing sensory information from the senses, planning, decision making, coordination, motor control, positive and negative emotions, attention, memory. The highest function performed by the brain is thinking.
You can easily test which hemisphere of your brain is active in at the moment. Look at this picture.
If the girl in the picture is rotating clockwise, then at the moment you have more active left hemisphere brain (logic, analysis). If it turns counterclockwise, then you have active right hemisphere(emotions and intuition).
Which direction is your girl spinning? It turns out that with some effort of thought, you can make the girl rotate in any direction. To begin with, try looking at the picture with a defocused gaze.
If you look at the picture at the same time as your partner, boyfriend, girlfriend, acquaintance, it very often happens that you simultaneously watch the girl rotate in two opposite directions - one sees the rotation clockwise, and the other counterclockwise. This is normal, you just have different hemispheres of your brain active at the moment.
Areas of specialization of the left and right hemispheres of the brain
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The main area of specialization of the left hemisphere is logical thinking, and until recently, doctors considered this hemisphere to be dominant. However, in fact, it dominates only when performing the following functions. The left hemisphere of the brain is responsible for language abilities. It controls speech, reading and writing abilities, remembers facts, names, dates and their spelling. Analytical thinking: Literal understanding of words: Sequential information processing: Mathematical abilities: Numbers and symbols are also recognized by the left hemisphere. Logical analytical approaches, which are necessary for solving mathematical problems, are also a product of the work of the left hemisphere. Control of movements of the right half of the body. When you raise your right hand, it means that the command to raise it came from the left hemisphere. |
The main area of specialization of the right hemisphere is intuition. As a rule, it is not considered dominant. It is responsible for performing the following functions. Processing nonverbal information: Spatial orientation: The right hemisphere is responsible for location perception and spatial orientation in general. It is thanks to the right hemisphere that you can navigate the terrain and create mosaic puzzle pictures. Musicality: Musical abilities, as well as the ability to perceive music, depend on the right hemisphere, although, however, music education The left hemisphere responds. Metaphors: With the help of the right hemisphere, we understand metaphors and the results of other people's imagination. Thanks to it, we can understand not only the literal meaning of what we hear or read. For example, if someone says: “He’s hanging on my tail,” then the right hemisphere will understand exactly what this person wanted to say. Imagination: The right hemisphere gives us the ability to dream and fantasize. With the help of the right hemisphere we can compose various stories. By the way, the question “What if...” is also asked by the right hemisphere. Artistic abilities: The right hemisphere is responsible for the ability to fine arts. Emotions: Although emotions are not a product of the functioning of the right hemisphere, it is more closely related to them than the left. Sex: The right hemisphere is responsible for sex, unless, of course, you are too concerned about the technique of this process itself. Mysticism: The right hemisphere is responsible for mysticism and religiosity. Dreams: The right hemisphere is also responsible for dreams. Parallel information processing: Controls the movements of the left half of the body: When you raise your left hand, it means that the command to raise it came from the right hemisphere. |
This can be represented schematically as follows:
This is, of course, a joke test, but it has some truth. Here is another option for a rotating picture.
After viewing these pictures, the double rotation image is of particular interest.
How else can you check which hemisphere is more developed?
Clasp your palms in front of you, now interlace your fingers and notice thumb which hand was on top.
Clap your hands and mark which hand is on top.
Cross your arms over your chest, mark which forearm is on top.
Determine your dominant eye.
How can you develop the abilities of the hemispheres?
There are several simple ways development of the hemispheres. The simplest of them is an increase in the amount of work on which the hemisphere is oriented. For example, to develop logic you need to solve math problems, solve crossword puzzles, and to develop imagination, visit an art gallery, etc.
The next way is to maximally use the side of the body controlled by the hemisphere - to develop the right hemisphere, you need to work with the left part of the body, and to work out the left hemisphere, you need to work with the right. For example, you can draw, jump on one leg, juggle with one hand.
An exercise to develop awareness of the right and left hemispheres of the brain will help develop the hemispheres.
1. Preparation for the exercise
Sit up straight, close your eyes. Breathing should be calm and uniform.
Visualize your brain as consisting of two hemispheres and divided into two halves by the corpus callosum. (See pic above) Focus on your brain.
We try (in our imagination) to establish a connection with our brain, alternately looking with our left eye at the left hemisphere of the brain, and with our right eye at the right. Then, with both eyes, we look inward, at the middle of the brain with the corpus callosum.
2 Doing the exercise
We inhale slowly, fill with air and hold our breath for a short time. During exhalation, we direct the stream of our consciousness, like a searchlight, to the left hemisphere and “look” at this part of the brain. Then we inhale again, hold our breath, and as we exhale, we direct the spotlight to the right hemisphere of the brain.
We imagine: on the left - clear logical thinking; on the right - dream, intuition, inspiration.
Left: inhalation, pause, exhalation associated with the projection of the number. Right: inhalation, pause, exhalation associated with the projection of the letter. Those. left: number “1” number “2” number “3”, etc. Right: letter “A” letter “B” letter “C” etc.
We continue this combination of numbers and letters as long as it evokes pleasant sensations. Letters and numbers can be swapped, or replaced with something else - for example, summer - winter, white - black.
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The hemispheres of the human brain perform different functions: the first is responsible for imagination, creative skills, imaginative thinking, and the second performs logical, abstract tasks, it is also responsible for language and math skills. A person cannot exist normally in society if the functioning of one or another hemisphere is significantly impaired, but, as a rule, parts of the brain are developed differently in different people. Depending on heredity, upbringing conditions, and brain training, a person may have better developed one or the other hemisphere, it dominates the second and takes responsibility for solving many problems.
Without special medical equipment, it is impossible to say for sure which hemisphere is better developed in a person and to what extent it predominates over the second. But there are several fairly simple tests that allow you to identify which part of the brain a person uses in certain cases, which helps to roughly determine whether he is “right-hemisphere” or “left-hemisphere.”
One of the most popular tests is physiological. It checks which part of the body you use most often in different situations, and depending on this, it suggests which hemisphere works better. The left hemisphere is responsible for the functioning of the right side of the body, and vice versa. Clasp your hands and see which hand's thumb is on top. Now cross your arms over your chest, noting which hand is on top. You can also clap your hands and see how it is more convenient for you to do this - when your right or right hand is on top. left hand. Based on these three simple tests, you can decide which hand you use most often. If it’s right, then your left hemisphere is better developed; if it’s left, then your right hemisphere is better developed. But this method is very approximate; it does not allow us to accurately determine how the brain works.
You can use the visual method. There are special pictures and animations that test the functioning of the hemispheres. You can find them on the Internet; most often they use the image of a spinning girl. People with developed left hemispheres see that it is spinning clockwise, others think that it is moving counterclockwise. The more one hemisphere dominates, the more difficult it is to “rebuild” your vision and see how the girl is spinning in the opposite direction.
The most accurate method for determining how your brain works is to take more detailed tests with questions that help establish not only what hands you use and how you see certain pictures, but also your abilities in mathematics, language disciplines, and art. , your habits and preferences. Such texts can be found in specialized literature or on the Internet. They include questions such as “Do you consider yourself a conservative?”, “Do you have good sense of place?”, “Do you like classical music?”, “Do you trust your intuition?” Based on the answers, we can conclude which hemisphere of the brain predominates: the left side of the brain is responsible for orientation on the ground, conservatism is also inherent in people with a developed left hemisphere, and “right-hemisphere” people have more developed intuition.
I suggest you take a very interesting test that determines which hemisphere of your brain is more developed.
To begin with, so that it is clear what we are talking about, I present to you scientific postulates about the functions of the cerebral hemispheres in human mental activity. Scientists claim that the mechanisms of abstract thinking are concentrated in the left hemisphere, and the mechanisms of concrete figurative thinking are concentrated in the right hemisphere.
And now a little more detail.
Left hemisphere of the brain
Processing verbal information
Responsible for your language abilities. This hemisphere controls speech, as well as reading and writing abilities. It also remembers facts, names, dates and their spellings.
Analytical thinking
Responsible for logic and analysis. It is this that analyzes all the facts. Numbers and mathematical symbols are also recognized by the left hemisphere.
Sequential information processing
Information is processed by the left hemisphere sequentially in stages.
Right hemisphere of the brain
Processing nonverbal information
Specializes in processing information that is expressed not in words, but in symbols and images.
Imagination
Gives us the opportunity to dream and fantasize. With the help of the right hemisphere we can create different stories. The right hemisphere is also responsible for abilities in music and the visual arts.
Parallel information processing
Can simultaneously process a lot of different information. It is able to look at a problem as a whole without applying analysis.
Now let's get back to our... uh... our test
If it seems to you that the picture is spinning clockwise, your left hemisphere is more developed (logic, analysis), counterclockwise - your right hemisphere (emotions, intuition).
As especially gifted individuals say: if you try really hard, you can make it rotate in the other direction.
The results, as well as, in principle, the conclusions from the results, can be trusted or not. here everyone decides for themselves.
Test "Which hemisphere is more developed?"
This is not the first time I have looked at this picture and each time the results are completely different. It rotates to the left, then (I don’t have time to blink) I look, and it’s already spinning to the right. We were never able to catch the moment of the rotation change. Sometimes it rotates very slowly, sometimes normally, sometimes it spins at breakneck speed. We tried looking at the picture both together and three times. And, practically, never once did our speed and direction of rotation coincide.
Based on my own test results above, I personally once again confirmed the correctness of my choice of life creed, which is presented here the motto of my Territory: “The only place to live is here, the only time to live is now.”. Those. at every moment of time at a given point in space we have our own own life, a special state that at any next moment can change dramatically.
All of you, of course, know that the brain consists of two hemispheres - left and right. It has been experimentally proven that different hemispheres are responsible for different types mental activity and control a specific side of the body. For example, the right hemisphere is primarily responsible for left side of our body, that is, it receives and sends signals to the left hand, leg, eye, etc. And the left hemisphere, accordingly, right side bodies.
Do you know which hemisphere of your brain is more developed? Several tests, which I will give below, will help us answer this question.
But first, I will tell you more about the functions of the right and left hemispheres.
Left hemisphere brain is responsible for abstract thinking. Specifically - for language (speech, reading, writing) and mathematical abilities, logic and analysis.
Right hemisphere The brain is responsible for imaginative thinking, that is, for processing information expressed in images and symbols. With the right hemisphere we dream, fantasize and create various stories. We also owe our ability to music and the visual arts to the right hemisphere.
As a rule, in a person, one hemisphere is dominant, and, naturally, this is reflected in the individual properties of a particular person. For example, people with a dominant left hemisphere are more inclined to engage in science, while people with a right hemisphere are more often people of art. It is no coincidence that the majority famous artists, composers, writers and poets are right-hemisphere individuals.
The following figure shows the areas of specialization of the cerebral hemispheres more clearly:
As I already said, most often, a person is dominated by one hemisphere, characteristic of their type of thinking. But there are individuals who work with both hemispheres.
To find out which hemisphere is more developed, there are various simple tests. Let's move on to them.
Cross the fingers of both hands into a "Lock". Now look, which hand's thumb is on top?
If it is the finger of your left hand, then your right hemisphere of the brain is more developed. And if the finger of the right hand is on top, then the left hemisphere dominates.
Cross your arms over your chest. Now look, which hand is on top?
If your left hand is on top, then your right hemisphere is more developed. And if it was on top right hand- you are a left-hemisphere person.
Look at the picture. Who do you think is drawn here?
If you saw a girl, then your right hemisphere is more developed.
And if it seems to you that an old woman is drawn here, then your left hemisphere is more developed.
This test allows you to find out which hemisphere of your brain is active at a given time.
To do this, look at the spinning girl. Which direction do you think it is spinning?
If you see that the girl is spinning clockwise, then at the moment your right hemisphere of the brain is active.
Accordingly, if you see that the girl is spinning counterclockwise, then your left hemisphere is currently active.
To make sure that you are not being deceived, you can invite other people to look at this moving picture. Simultaneously different people can see the girl spinning in different directions.
You yourself can make the girl spin in the opposite direction by activating the work of the other hemisphere of your brain. Try it!
A similar test can be done with a funny drawn man:
And to make sure that the man can spin in different directions, look at the following picture. Look at the head, which has eyes, and you will clearly see that the little men are spinning in different directions. Now cover your heads with your hand so that they are not visible. See, now it seems to you that both men are spinning in the same direction.
I think you yourself know what is more developed in you - logic and analysis, or emotions and intuition? And the above tests confirmed your guesses about which hemisphere of your brain is more developed? Are you a left- or right-brain person? Did all tests show the same results? I look forward to your comments!