Your Brain: The Right and Left of It

What is the primary function of the corpus callosum, as established by animal studies in the 1950s?

In the split-brain patient test involving a spoon flashed to the right brain and a knife to the left brain, what did the patient verbally claim to have seen?

According to the text, which mode of thinking is characterized as verbal, analytic, symbolic, and sequential?

What is the primary reason the text suggests that drawing may depend on accessing the R-mode?

In the English language, what did the Anglo-Saxon word 'lyft', the root for 'left', originally mean?

Which characteristic is listed in the 'Parallel Ways of Knowing' table as the counterpart to the 'analytic' quality of the L-mode?

What percentage of the human population has a preference for using the right hand, according to the chapter on handedness?

For the approximately 30 percent of left-handers whose language is not solely in the left hemisphere, how is language location distributed?

Which trio of famous artists is mentioned in the text as being left-handed?

What is the basic strategy proposed in the book for accessing the R-mode at a conscious level?

According to the text, what was the historical view of the right hemisphere held by nineteenth-century scientists?

The surgical procedure performed on 'split-brain' patients to control severe epilepsy, which involves severing the corpus callosum, is known as what?

In the comparison chart of L-mode and R-mode characteristics on page 59, what is the R-mode counterpart to the L-mode's 'Temporal' characteristic?

What does the French word 'gauche' mean, and which hemisphere does the book associate it with?

In the 'Duality of Yin and Yang' table, which concept is listed as the 'Yang' counterpart to the 'Yin' concept of 'darkness'?

The text states that the percentage of individuals with a left-hand preference for handwriting rose from about 2 percent in 1932 to what percentage in the 1980s?

What is 'lateralization' in the context of brain function?

What does the text suggest about the lateralization of left-handers compared to right-handers?

According to the text, what is a key reason for not forcing a left-handed child to use their right hand?

What are the two main factors that scientists believe determine which hemisphere will 'take up' a task?

Why does the left hemisphere control the right side of the body and the right hemisphere control the left side?

What percentage of right-handers have their language capabilities located in the left hemisphere?

What did Jerre Levy's doctoral studies add to the understanding of the right hemisphere's mode of processing?

What term does the text use for the flash of insight, such as that experienced by Archimedes, associated with the R-mode?

The Latin word 'dexter' is the root of our word 'dexterity' and is associated with which hemisphere?

Which of the following is NOT listed as a characteristic of the right-hemisphere mode in the text?

In the split-brain test with wooden shapes, why did the patient's right hand have to be restrained?

What is the text's explanation for why our educational system has traditionally neglected R-mode skills?

What does 'binocular disparity' allow us to do, and how is it removed for drawing?

What physical feature of the brain resembles 'the halves of a walnut'?

What is the primary outward effect of the functional asymmetry of the human brain mentioned in the text?

Who were the primary researchers at Cal Tech who conducted the 'split-brain' studies mentioned in the chapter?

What is the meaning of the Latin word 'sinister', and with which hand is it associated?

According to the comparison chart on page 59, what is the L-mode counterpart to the R-mode's 'Synthetic' characteristic?

What is the author's view on right-handers drawing with their left hand to access R-mode?

What is 'right/left confusion' as described in the chapter?

What does the text speculate is the reason that the dominant L-mode might relinquish a task to the R-mode?

What percentage of left-handers have language mediated in the left hemisphere, similar to most right-handers?

The term 'R-mode' is the author's term for which mode of thinking?

Historically, why was an injury to the left side of the brain considered more likely to cause a loss of speech capability?

In the context of the chapter, the 'Ah-ha! response' is a characteristic of which mode of information processing?

What did the Mayan Indians believe about the twitching of a soothsayer's left leg?

The author suggests that a mixture of functions in both hemispheres, or a lesser degree of lateralization, creates the potential for what?

What is the reason provided in the text that human beings are the only creatures known to draw realistic images of their environment?

In the context of political vocabulary, which extreme political ideology is associated with the 'political left'?

According to the Duality of Yin and Yang table, what is the 'Yin' counterpart to the 'Yang' concept of 'right side'?

What surprising finding did Jerre Levy note about the two modes of processing in the brain?

The text suggests that the right brain is metaphorically 'left-handed' and has all the ancient connotations of that characteristic. Which of the following is NOT one of those connotations mentioned?

What is the author's primary reason for encouraging students with 'hidden ambidexterity' to try drawing with both hands?

What does the text say may be the result of the evolutionary development of asymmetry in the human brain?