Growth in Hemispheric Dominance and Lateralization
Adulthood
By adulthood hemispheric dominance and lateralization are firmly in place.
In most of adults, the left hemisphere, "controls and makes final decisions" concerning information collected from throughout the brain.
At the same time, the left hemisphere simultaneously inhibits the visio-spatial right hemisphere's cognitive and visual decision making processes from participating and contributing positively to intellectual ability.
What happens to the artistic ability and creativity in secondary schools because of left brain dominance and right brain inhibition?
For the Artist-
Advantages of Right Hemispheric Inhibition:
* Brings order to chaotic, uncontrolled mental processing- a unity of consciousness.
* Gives the artist planning and reasoning ability.
Disadvantages of Left Hemispheric Dominance:
* Words exert rigid control over the development of visual forms. This results in tight visual stereotypes.
* Inhibition of visual to visual thinking processes increases. (Visual thinking)
* Parsing of small visual details is emphasized but there is no development of creative visual configurations (ideas)
* There is a lack of perception of visual aesthetics; only the meaning of objects
* Verbal logic reasons that an art work is finished when it does not yet "visually work"
* Literal or limited meaning is perceived in visual forms. Visual Cognition inhibited.
Principles
Basic Knowledge
Adulthood
Negative Views of Right Hemisphere
Creativity and Synchronization
II. Brain Synchronicity and Creativity
III. Brain Synchronicity and Creativity
Implications for Art Education
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