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

Correct answer: The right brain processes visual information in a mode suitable for drawing, while the left-brain's mode may be inappropriate.

Explanation

This question focuses on the core hypothesis of the book regarding the relationship between brain function and the skill of drawing, linking the R-mode's perceptual style to the requirements of realistic drawing.

Other questions

Question 1

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

Question 2

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?

Question 3

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

Question 5

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

Question 6

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

Question 7

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

Question 8

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

Question 9

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

Question 10

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

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

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?

Question 14

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

Question 15

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

Question 16

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?

Question 17

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

Question 18

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

Question 19

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

Question 20

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

Question 21

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

Question 22

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

Question 23

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

Question 24

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

Question 25

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

Question 26

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

Question 27

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

Question 28

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

Question 29

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

Question 30

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

Question 31

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

Question 32

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

Question 33

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

Question 34

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

Question 35

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

Question 36

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

Question 37

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

Question 38

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

Question 39

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

Question 40

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

Question 41

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

Question 42

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

Question 43

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

Question 44

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

Question 45

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

Question 46

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

Question 47

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

Question 48

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?

Question 49

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

Question 50

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