Sofi Psychology: How our Brains Work

1. The brain is divided into two hemispheres; they both work together but have different functions.

2. The main difference from one side of the brain to the other is creativity and logic. The left side of the brain deals with logic, sequential rationality, and analytical objectivity. The right side of our brains is more random, intuitive, holistic, synthesizing, and subjective. It is also important to note that the left side of our brain looks at parts as for our right brain which looks at things as a whole.

3. The corpus callosum is nervous tissue which connects the left and right sides of your brain; by this arched bridge both hemispheres to communicate.

4. Paul Broca had a patient who could only say tan, therefore he called his patient ‘’Tan’’. When Tan died he studied his brain and discovered his left frontal cortex was damaged. This part of the brain is now known as the "Broca's Area."

5. Roger Sperry made a breaking change in medicine, the life for epileptic patients changed because of him. In the 1960s he changed epilepsy by cutting the corpus collosum, this way he was enabling any energy transfers, this way the patient would not suffer from any epileptic attacks.

6. Karl Wernicke, following Paul Broca’s studies, became involved and discovered speech was also related to the temporal lobe.

7. The occipital lobe of your brain is responsible for vision.

8. Hearing and language is controlled by the temporal lobe.

9. The frontal lobe is responsible for math calculations.

10. As well as for math we use our frontal lobe for judgment, reasoning and impulse control.