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Beals, Mark G. – 1981
The main thrust of American education has been cognitively oriented. Recent research on the human brain suggests that such orientation is a general function of only one hemisphere of the brain, the left. Because of the close relationships among speech, language, thinking, reasoning, and the higher mental functions, the left brain hemisphere…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Convergent Thinking
