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Right visual fie field ch ht RI
RIGHTBRAIN
Left side of each
eye sees the right
visual field
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RIIGHT BRAIN SKI
S
s
rain seems to be the focus of
ou
Thee right side oof your b ILLS
ughts and emotional, intuitive
youur more creative thou a
t
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nt
o
ressponses. It is also im portant for spatial awareness.
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Spatial skills
Your ability to visualize and
work with three-dimensional
Optic nerve shapes is strongly linked to
Sends visual
the right side of your brain.
signals to brain th
Ar
Ar t
Vis sual art is related to spatial skills,
nd the right side of your brain is
an
y mor
e
ou ar
e activ
r pr pr
obabl
robably more active when you are
e when y
dr rawing, painting, or looking at art.
Imagination
aginatio
Right optic tract
eativ
e imag
cr
Carries data a from Your creative imagination is mostly y
directed by the right hemisphere,
left visual fi field dir
n
although expressing that imagination
s
involves left-brain skills.
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Insight
Those moments of insight when
mom
you connect two very different
nne
ome fr
y c
ideas probably come from the
i
abl
right half of your brain.
c
c
Music
ol
v
es
Like visual art, music involves a lot
Right visual co ortex of right-brain activity—but trained
h
h
d
aine
Processes dat a a
ns
s
from left musicians also use their left brains
visual field
ry
y
y.
to master musical theory. . . .
ry
The left brain controls the right
hand, and since most people are
Croos d wi Right-handed world
ossed wires
right-handed, this suggests
e
The left s side o that the left brain is usually
he l
side of each eye is
ed t
o
connected to t he left side of your use their right-brain skills
nn
e
ct
dominant. So do left-handers
brain, but it picks up data from the right
a
but
ut it p
side of your head—the right visual fi more? There is no proof of this,
field. Each side of the
—the
—th
her side of the head.
brain processes images from the oth trouble using language and logic.
es i
s im
im
and many left-handers have no
Each side also controls the muscles
s of the opposite hand.
als
so
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