Teaching Both Brains

Authors

Roy Unruh, University of Northern IowaFollow

Document Type

Article

Abstract

In the advanced vertebrates, including man, the two large hemispheres of the cerebrum of the brain serve as centers of perception, of voluntary motion, and of the higher mental faculties such as thought and memory. The two hemispheres are connected by several bands of nerve tissue the major tissue being the corpus callosum. The two hemispheres control the motor and sensory responses of the opposite sides of the body. Some hemispheric differences in function were reported as early as 1861 when Dr. Paul Broca observed that patients with lesions on their left cerebral hemispheres were more likely to suffer loss of speech than were those with lesions on their right hemispheres. From a host of such observations it was concluded that the left hemisphere of the cerebrum controls the function of speech.

Publication Date

September 1978

Journal Title

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Volume

15

Issue

2

First Page

11

Last Page

13

Copyright

© Copyright 1978 by the Iowa Academy of Science

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Unruh, Roy (1978) "Teaching Both Brains," Iowa Science Teachers Journal: Vol. 15: No. 2, Article 9.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/istj/vol15/iss2/9