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more on their right hemispheres.Consider an examplealbeit a.
tongueincheek one. Two professorsAlpha and Betaare both excellent.
scholarsbut they work and think in totally different ways. Alpha is.
meticulous and leaves no detail to chancewhen learning new ma.
terialhe masters every detail and has total command of the. topic.Alpha
is ver bal and easily wins debates with his quick. thinking and elegant
arguments.His writing is clear and concisewith. flawless grammar and
spelling.Alpha is athletic and is a nationally. ranked tennis
player.Curiouslyhe is only mediocre at other sportsbut. with prolonged
practice he is able to master them.Alpha s office is. neat and tidywith
every item carefully placed in its correct. location. On his desk is the
project on which he is currently working. and nothing else. Beta
appears to be messy and disorganized compared. with Alpha and has
poor recall for details.He grasps the heart of an. idea
quicklyhoweverand can tie diverse concepts into a meaningful.
picture.Communicating his thinking poses Beta a challengehoweverfor.
he has difficulty expressing his ideas in words.Like AlphaBeta is.
athleticbut Beta acquires the general motor skills of new sports.
rapidlyalthough he has never been able to become a top participant in.
any event.In contrast with Alphawho works on only one project at a.
time Beta works on several projects concurrentlyleading to piles of.
papers and books in his work spaceunlike Alpha s meticulous desk. In.
both the cognitive and the motor skills of Alpha and Beta is a basic. dif
ference that is assumed to correspond to a fundamental difference.
either in brain organization or in the dominance of one hemisphere.
over the other. Alpha and Beta represent extreme lefthemisphere and.
righthemisphere peo plerespectively.The fundamental difference.
between them is their preferred cognitive mode.Alpha is.
analyticallogicalverbaland meticulouswhereas Beta is a synthesizer.
more concerned with organizing concepts and visualizing meaningful.
wholes. As intriguing as the Alpha and Beta analysis might bewe.
caution that it is pure speculationwithout empirical basis.Factors. other
than brain organiza tion probably contribute to preferred. cognitive
mode.. In an examination in our undergraduate course in human neu.
ropsychologywe askedIn what ways is the human brain symmetrical.
Thinking it to be a trick questiona majority of the students. answeredIt
isn t symmetricalit s asymmetrical.This answer is. wrongbecause many
functions especially of the primary sensory and. motor areas appear to
be identical on the two sides of the brain.. VARIATIONS IN
CEREBRAL ASYMMETRY. People use the word sinister as a
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