December 2009
Beginner
144 pages
2h 53m
English

The cerebral cortex covers the two cerebral hemispheres, popularly known as the left brain and the right brain. If we unfolded and then flattened out our 3mm-thick cortexes, they would be the same size as a tabloid-sized sheet of paper.
A deep groove separates the left brain from the right brain. Nobel Prize winner Roger Sperry discovered in the 1960s that the two hemispheres divide the major intellectual functions between them. Each hemisphere is dominant in certain activities, but they are both basically skilled in all areas.[9]
In our left brain, we tend to match what we see now with what we have experienced before. ...
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