and your

BRAIN

Did you know???

• The brain is the consistency of soft butter or Jello!

• Your brain is a muscle and you can actually burn calories when you think?*

*Just THINK, you can trim up when studying for a test. How cool is that!

Did you ever really stop to wonder what’s going on in your brain?

YOUR BRAIN

What can we observe?

YOUR BRAIN

LEFT RIGHT HEMISPHERE H HEMISPHERE

has two halves

Left: Right: Sequential Simultaneous

Brain Functions

Left: Right: Sequential Simultaneous

Brain Functions

Likes to see things In order, one thing At a time

Likes to see everything all at once

Look at these letters:

REDOR What’s going on in your brain right now? Does the word make sense?

Maybe it’s because the words are out of

ORDER REDOR

Look at this face

Now try to REMEMBER the face.

Now try to REMEMBER the face.

Are you imagining just the nose? Or ONE of the eyes? Only the mouth?

Or are you remembering ALL of the features at once??

Which side of the brain do you think you are using?

Or are you remembering ALL of the features at once??

Which side of the brain do you think you are using?

Left: Right: Sequential Simultaneous Abstract Concrete

Brain Functions

Ideas, thoughts, reflections.

Things that actually ARE. What we see.

What do you actually see?

What do you actually see?

What do you know?

Left: Right: Sequential Simultaneous Abstract Concrete Logical Emotional

Brain Functions

Based on facts Based on feelings

Look at this picture and noticewhat your first thoughts were

Look at this picture and noticewhat your first thoughts were

Did the face look sort of ?

Which side of your brain do you think was REACTING?

Brain Functions Left: Right: Sequential Simultaneous Abstract Concrete Logical Emotional Hears text Feels context

When we say something, our left brain hears the sounds but our right brain puts the sounds in context or, puts the words together with the picture. So the same words can have different meaning depending on the picture.

For example…

The right hemisphere is the picture;

The left hemisphere is the thousand words. Photo credit: vaxine

YOUR BRAIN IS

CONTRALATERAL

LEFT RIGHT HEMISPHERE H HEMISPHERE

YOUR BRAIN IS

CONTRALATERAL

LEFT RIGHT HEMISPHERE H HEMISPHERE

Both sides work together. Did you know…

The left side

controls the right

and the right side

controls the left

Raise your right hand.

Raise your right hand.

Which side of your brain do you think you were using?

Tap your left foot.

Tap your left foot.

Right or left brain ??

Who do we probably consider to be the person with the smartest left brain in history?

Albert Einstein

Have you ever heard of Einstein’s famous equation E=mc ?2

Have you ever heard of Einstein’s famous equation E=mc ?

Well, it all started with Einstein imagining what he would see if….

2

he were riding on a beam of light!

Why talk about brains in art??

Art is good for your brain

Art will help you to use your whole brain and make you smarter

Think of art as creative

where your brain might take you!

Some elements in some of the images were used from Clker.com