1. Cognitive Skills/Functions Associated with Hemispheres of the Brain
Left Hemisphere – Logical
Words (spelling)
Verbal meaning
Vocabulary in language
Details – rules
Analysis
One-by-one selectivity
Step-by-step instructions
Sequential ordering
Cause and effect relationships
Learned facts
Letter-symbol associations
Abstract reasoning
Academically-learned information
Ideas
Serial/ordered structures
Self-verbalizations
Selective attention
Consciousness – reasoning
Scientific logic
Right Hemisphere – Aesthetic
Images, pictures, and colors – spatial
Music and feelings
Gestalt – whole/relational
Synthesis, comparisons
Simultaneous patterning
Whole process
Whole units
Analogies
Creativity – new combinations
Visual symbolism
Concrete
Practical – common sense knowledge
Patterns of things/theory
Random-without structure body language
Facial expression, tone of voice
Sustained attention
Meditation, spontaneous ideas, subconscious
Spiritual – mythical
Patterns of logical associations
Used with Permission: Maureen Priestley 2004

3. Brain-Behavior Model Inputs Inputs Inputs OUTPUTS
(motor, oral, written)
Concept formation, reasoning,
logical analysis
Language skills
Visual-spatial skills
Manipulations in Active
Working Memory
Attention, concentration, memory
Inputs
Visual
Inputs
Auditory
Inputs
Kinesthetic