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As you read the postings of your classmates, consider how you might add to the discussion. You could ask probing questions, offer examples, share a different perspective, seek clarification, add your own insights based on your experiences from outside this course, etc. Avoid brief comments like, "I agree with Helen." Your goal is to add to the discussion so that further understanding develops. I expect from each participant at least two postings in response to other student answers (this is in addition to posting your answer to the DQs).
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I thought the Split Brains Experiments flash game was very interesting and had an educational value too. Not only did I interact with the website I learned something as well. I think this is one of the best ways to teach concepts, such as Mrs. Alston's games that we played outside.
Mr. Split Brainy could see and determine what he saw when he was shown an object on the right side that is connected with the left hemisphere. When he was shown an object on the left side he could never determine what he saw. In the next experiment he doesn't see what is shown on the left side but he picks the correct object and doesn't know why he is holding it. It shows that the left hemisphere is better at language then the right half. The right hemisphere still can comprehend basic things.
[Written by Tyler Petcher]
I thought it was very intresting but not very appealing to me. I would rather have notes on this than doing it interactively.
This was informational and fun, but it took awhile. Knowing that the left brain is connected to the right eye is very odd when you first think about it but very cvcool when you think about it.
The Split Brain Experiement was useful, in helping me understand the different functions of the left and right hemisphere.
The right hemisphere can recognize faces,and when Mr. Split Brain sees a monosyllable word, he is able to picture the word. When he sees a heart on the right hemisphere, it reminded him of his wife, and I guess that represented love which meant that the right hemisphere deals with the emotions. As for the left hemisphere, he was able to read the words and calculate the math problems. When he saw Gloria's face, he couldn't recognize the person, but he could list the features, like the face, eyes, nose, etc. Also when he saw the heart, it was only a shape to him, so there was no emotion of love shown in the left hemisphere.
THe Split Brains Experiments tutorial really helped me understand what really happens in a split brain patient because it was hands-on. THe book provided information but it was hard to understand it but this tutorial helped to visualize what was going on.
I thought the web site provided enough information to cover the ideas that the left hemisphere accounts for speaking and the right is more the ability to understand. However the website was a little cheezy at times, but it was still educational and I learned from it.
I thought the web site and flash split brain game was very interesting as well as a fun way to learn about split-brain experiments and the different hemispheres of the brain. However, it was a confusing concept to wrap my brain around. The fact that the left brain is connected to the right side of your body and vis-versa is not an easy idea to grasp. However, by the end of the tutorial I felt I better understood the individual tasks of each hemisphere and therefore why Mr. Split Brainy could identify but describe what objects were flashed in his right eye.
Eddie Khav: Good point with the right hemisphere being able to recognize faces. I had been curious as to why Mr. Split-brainy could recognize his wife but not the word "sophisticated". Your explanation of the right hemisphere however clarifies this.
I agree with Alex that at first it was a hard concept at first for my brain to even understand. I had to go back through the flash game again in order to get a better understanding of it.
[Written by Tyler Petcher]
I thought that the Split Brains experiment would have been very useful, had I looked at it prior to the test (which by the way i BOMBED). It was a fun way to learn things about the brain and the different functions of both sides. The way that Mr. Split Brainy functioned was really interesting to me. I was really surprised that he could pick up the right object, even though he claims to have seen nothing.
I agree with Alex. It was a hard concept to grasp, but the tutorial definitely helped me to gain a better understanding of how one side is connected to the other, and vise versa.
I agree with Caitlin. The website was a bit cheesy, but educational at the same time. It made me laugh a little bit, and it was really fun that it was interactive and I wasn't just reading things, and taking notes.
I found the Split Brains Experiment a little challeging at first for some reason. I don't know if it's because I don't follow directions that well, or if it wasn't good at explaining what I was supposed to do. I had a lot of "ohh I get it" moments from playing around with it. After I was done and it explained what happened with Mr.Split Brainy I liked it.
I disagree with caitlen becuase I thought the book gave a good way of explaining what the left and right hemispheres do. The game to me just gave a short little overview of what the book already said.
WOW Eddie, you sure did get a lot of information from that game. But I recognized that when Mr.Brainy saw the Gloria through the right side he could see that it was a face, but not who's face it is. And when you showed the same face to his right side he was able to say "It's Gloria". Or when he saw the picture of a heart to the left side he associated it with a face,perhaps someone he loves, but couldn't verbally identify what the heart was. When he saw the heart at the right side, he was able to identify it but didn't associate it with a person. The word subjective came to mind when he saw the heart through his left side because he thought of a person.
The Split Brain Experiment game was kind of fun. I am more of a visual learner, so in that sense it was more appealing to me. However, it was unnecessarily time consuming and the website could have been more concise.
It was intriguing that he was easily capable of determining what the slide was when it was flashed in front of his right eye/left hemisphere. It was very amazing that he verbally noted that he did not see anything when the slide was displayed in front of his left eye/right hemisphere, but he could still intuitively pick up the corresponding object. They basically determined that the left hemisphere has a greater control over language and the right hemisphere can only interpret simplistic things.
I enjoyed doing the Split Brain experiment. It was interactive and helped me understand more about the left and right hemispheres. When Mr. Split Brainy had the objects flash on the screen, he saw nothing on one side, and then on the other side he saw the object. When the object was shown on his right side, he was able to see the object in his left brain, and pick up the object with his right hand. It was a lot easier to understand interactively.
I agree with Caitlin in saying the website produced a greater knowledge of the left brain with speaking and the right brain on understanding more visually. The interactive activities were more effective to me then reading the information from the book, which can be somewhat confusing.
The book can be somewhat confusing at times but I like how the book talks about various experiments and other comparisons to the material. The website could have been a little more concise. Sometimes I was felt like I was just waiting there for the next thing to happen.
[Written by Tyler Petcher]
I think that the interactive Split Brain Experiment was intersting and a good way to pick up on how the left and right brain are connected to the opposite eyes. I liked this better than the book because it was quicker and not as hard to understand.
I agree with Caitlen on how the website was a little cheesy but helpful at the same time. I really like how it was hands on and it made you interact along with the letters that you had to send out
I disagreed with tyler when saying he would rather take notes on the subject. I am more of a visual, interactive learner and need to do something hands on in order to properly understand the concept. Yes, i thought the tutorial was a bit cheesy, however, i find it more memorable. When looking back on the website, you still remember the information either way.
after having played the game i thought that it was a little to slow. Like tyler said, i would rather take notes or have done a class activity. However it is still interesting to see that the left hemisphere controls the right side and the right hemisphere controls the left side. On Mr. split brain it seems as if his left hemisphere is where he processes most of his information, however his right only does and can process simple information.
I would have do agree with jazmyn and Caitlin on how this site was some what cheesy however it was some what educational. I did learn a little more on how the different hemispheres of the brain process their own things such as language and memory.
many people say that they have to see something visual in order to grasp it. I am the same way, however i feel that i need to see either a movie or a good picture that way i can process the information a little better. While an interactive activity game as such is good, it need to have more.
I thought the animation helped me understand the information better so then I could apply it to the book text. But I think without the interactive activity I would not have understood the information.
I found it very interesting that Mr. Split Brainy would say he saw nothing but pick the item up, and the wonder why it was in his hand. The left hemisphere controls the majority of language and the right hemisphere is better at identifying things.
This activity helped me learn a little bit of information. But for the amount of time it took i would say it wasn't worth it. I learn more by listening to lecture and reading the imformation (that probably has to do with the way my brain works haha). But for others it was a beneficial learning tool.
I agree that it was a long process to go through to get the basic information that the right brain processes images and short words and numbers while the left brain processes language and computations. But it did help me better understand why the patients that had half their brain removed learned to speak with such difficulty: the right brain is able to process limited amounts of language, but with much more difficulty.
The only thing I don't really understand is, why is something shown on the left side of the screen seen only by the left eye (and thus processed by the right side of the brain)? I know when I close my left eye I can still see things in my left visual field with my right eye. I would have thought that brain plasticity would allow the brain to adapt so that information from both sides could be sent from the eyes to the brain.
This is Colleen by the way...the left brain seems to process so much more information than the right brain. Maybe that's how the rumor got started that we only use 10 percent of our brains. But if we really do use all of our brain, maybe the right hemisphere has undiscovered abilities apart from visual association, like some kind of brain area that deals with intuition. That could explain the "sixth sense."
I agree with Eddie on the way he found it interesting that Mr. Split Brainy saw the shape of the heart as it was. And didn't make any connection to love. I didn't think to connect any of the items with emotions, I just looked at them strictly as they were.
I thought that the Split Brain Experiments game was very informative. It helped be to better understand which side of the brain can understand words and numbers better, and also which side could recognize pictures better. This helped me understand the information better because I was actually interacting with it.
I agree with Alex in that it was difficult to understand at first, but by the end of the game it got a lot easier to understand how everything works.
I agree with Samantha about how interesting it is that the left side of the brain has greater control over language and how the right side can only determine simple things.
Not does this game have a great educational purpose, it was fun! I learned and got to have an interactive experience with learning what goes on, in some people's brains. I also loved the games we played outside with Mrs. Alston. This experiment on the computer really helped me identify what was going on with his right and left hemisphere. Along with the game, the letters they wrote to the head council helped me fully understand.
The beginning game annoyed me. It kept on saying "Mr. Split Brainy tells you...". I didn't care for the game that much >.<, but it did get a message across. I learned a little bit through they game, but I rather would have read a article about it, or watched a video. If it wasn't for a class, I wouldn't have been able to finish it all the way because it bored me.
It did show that language comprehension didn't work with the right hemispheres. (When he read some words, they came out as ------. ) It also showed that his short term memory wasn't good on the right hemisphere. So the game did teach me something new.
Agreeing with Jazmyn, I think that it was amazing how the man did not know what he saw, but he could pick up the correct object up. This just proves that our brain and the hemispheres are very advanced. Who knows, the brain could be even more advanced then we think.
The second experiment that Mr. Split Brain did was quite confusing. I don't understand how in the right hemisphere, he doesn't see what is shown, but he picks the correct object and doesn't know why he picked it up. Is this because the right hemisphere is blind to the left side of the board and isn't aware of what the hand is doing??
I agree with everyone that said that the game was cheesy. If educators want to start new educational games, they need to have better communication with the designers so that they will appeal to others.
I also agree with Crypt because this game did bore my a little bit in the beginning. I think that some information could have been left out, but other information was very helpful. I think we all learned something new.
Yeah i agree with Eddie. I didn't really get how he got the stuff in the palm of his hand, and not realize it was there. Is that correct, or just some added 'humor' into the game?
BTW this is Craig Felton. Idk why the name says crypt?
This activity was very educational. I think many of us can agree that this method of learning is effective.
Mr. Split Brainy was unable to articulate what he saw when the objects, words, or math problems were flashed for his left vision to comprehend in his right hemisphere. He could do some simple equations and follow elementary words but nothing too complex.
When the objects, words, and math problems were flashed for his right vision to comprehend in his left hemisphere, he was able to comprehend everything.
I agree with Amy that it was a bit more helpful than the textbook. Some things can be easier to understand if they are visually demonstrated, versus just reading text.
I'll take a "cheesy" educational game to notes any day. It's personal preference and we all learn well through different methods. Mr. Split Brainy was awesome.
I thought it was interesting that the corpus callosum used to be severed because it was the only way to cure epilepsy in the 1960s. This demonstrates the progression of the scientific/medical fields. What are we doing today that will seem outlandish 50 years from now?
I thought the Split Brains flash game was very education to visual learners. The falling objects and the ability to see how the right part of the brain controlled the left side of your body made it very easy to comprehend. I suppose this would be an experiment for a right-minded personality.
I loved the experiments because i am a more of a visual and interactive learner than a studier and reader. I liked that educational and entertainment value and appreciated that it really made it clear to me how both of the hemispheres interact. I find it so fascinating that the left and right brains are so comprehensive and that still some people take their minds for granted.
I agree with alot of pepole when they said that the most interesting thing was that people could see things with words out of your rtight eye but could only descirbe something weith your right eye when your brain is split.
I also thought it was interesting how much scientific experimentation has gotten over the years. Corpus callosum being the only way to cure epilepsy seems very outdated now.
I am kind of dissapointed in the fact that humans don't have souls in the traditional sense, but rather we have parts of our brain that creat a "soul" and that those parts can be manipulated makes me kind of sad.
No matter how "cheesy" this game might be, I don't see how this couldn't be a very helpful tool to take in the fundamentals of left and right hemispheres of the brain. It even got down to specifics. I especially liked how to see between left and right-brained personalities, it showed him picturing it in his head or spelling it out.
I think that the Split Brains Experiment was very interesting and helped me with the functions of the left and right brain. While reading out of a text book and taking notes helps, I think this helps a lot more. It was cool to know that the left brain is connected to the right eye and how he did not know what the picture was and he ended up picking up the correct object. I should have done this blog earlier to help me on the test.
*I agree with Dan on how the game is cheesy and on how he said that he especially liked how to see between left and right-brained personalities, it showed him picturing it in his head or spelling it out.
I do not agree with Tyler on how he said that he would rather do notes. I don't know what he is thinking but doing this game was a lot better than notes.
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