Right- and left-brain learners: Strategies to facilitate hemisphere learning
Briefings on Outpatient Rehab: Reimbursement and Regulations, August 1, 2009
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There is increasing evidence that the learning preferences and styles of adult learners drastically influence how effectively they acquire new knowledge. The right and left hemispheres of the brain process information differently, and learners tend to absorb and manage information using the dominant hemisphere (Rose & Nicholl, 1997). The right hemisphere of the brain is devoted to the creative aspects of learning and depends on music, color, visual stimulation, and pictures to process information. The left hemisphere of the brain is concerned with logical, reality-based functioning and enables learners to deal with language, math, and problems requiring analysis (Rose & Nicholl, 1997).
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