Brain Plasticity
• The brain’s ability to change (especially during childhood) by reorganizing after damage and building new pathways.
Constraint-Induced Therapy
Reading Braille
Limited “Neurogenesis”
Corpus Callosum: How the 2 Halves Connect
Optic Chiasm: Another Way to Connect
Right/Left Brain Differences
• Left Hemisphere– Language (literal interpretations)– Calculations
• Right Hemisphere– Making inferences– Helps make the meaning of our speech clear– Controls sense of “self”
Facts About “Handedness”
• 90% are right-handed• 96% of right-handed people process language
in their left hemisphere• 10% are left-handed• 70% process language in left hemisphere, just
like right-handed people• 30% process language in right hemisphere—or
in both
Left-Handedness
• More common among:• Musicians• Mathematicians• Professional baseball/cricket players• Architects• Artists– Michelangelo, da Vinci, Picasso
