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    The document discusses research into brain lateralization and mathematical giftedness in middle school students. The key points are: 1) A study found that mathematically gifted middle school boys performed better than average-ability teens and college students on a task that required cooperation between the left and right hemispheres of the brain. 2) The gifted boys showed faster reaction times when both sides of the brain were engaged in a task, whereas average students were slower on these cooperative trials. 3) The researchers suggest mathematical giftedness may be linked to better integration of spatial and imagery skills across both hemispheres of the brain.

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    The document discusses research into brain lateralization and mathematical giftedness in middle school students. The key points are: 1) A study found that mathematically gifted middle school boys performed better than average-ability teens and college students on a task that required cooperation between the left and right hemispheres of the brain. 2) The gifted boys showed faster reaction times when both sides of the brain were engaged in a task, whereas average students were slower on these cooperative trials. 3) The researchers suggest mathematical giftedness may be linked to better integration of spatial and imagery skills across both hemispheres of the brain.

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    The document discusses research into brain lateralization and mathematical giftedness in middle school students. The key points are: 1) A study found that mathematically gifted middle school boys performed better than average-ability teens and college students on a task that required cooperation between the left and right hemispheres of the brain. 2) The gifted boys showed faster reaction times when both sides of the brain were engaged in a task, whereas average students were slower on these cooperative trials. 3) The researchers suggest mathematical giftedness may be linked to better integration of spatial and imagery skills across both hemispheres of the brain.

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    The

    Dominant
    Side of
    the Brain
    Left Dominance
    –Classical music
    –Being on time
    –Careful planning
    –To consider alternative
    –Being thoughtful
    –Monopoly, scrabble, or chess
    Right Dominance
    –Popular music
    –A good times
    –To visualize the outcome
    –To go with the first idea
    –Being active
    –Athletics, art, or music
    Research Study “ The Brain’s Left and Right Sides Seem
    to Work Together Better in Mathematically Gifted
    Middle-School Youth
    – Mathematically gifted teens better than average-ability teens and
    college students on test that required the two halves of the brain
    to cooperate
    – University of Melbourne, Australia, 60 right-handed males: 18
    mathematically gifted (averaging nearly 14 years in age), 18 of
    average math ability (averaging just over 13), and 24 college
    students (averaging about 20). Math giftedness seems to favor
    boys over girls, appearing an estimated six to 13 times more
    often.
    – The gifted boys were recruited from a challenges for Youth-
    Talented program at Lowa State University.
    – Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) math score for college-bound
    high school seniors is 500 out of 800
    – Mathematically gifted boys’ average SAT math score in middle
    school was 620
    – Left hemisphere is adept at processing visual “parts” in this
    case the letter details, while the right hemisphere is more
    adept at analysing visual “wholes”, in this case the global
    shapes of the big letters.
    – Average-ability boys and college students were slower on
    cooperative trials, which presented letter patterns on both
    sides of the screen, the math-gifted showed the opposite
    pattern. They were slower on one-side trials, but when a
    task “asked” both sides of the brain to work together, they
    were considerably faster than the other boys
    “It’s not that you have a special math module somewhere in
    your brain, but rather that the brain’s particular functional
    organization – which allows right – hemisphere contributions to
    be better integrated into the overall cognitive/behavioural
    equation – predisposes it towards the use of high-level imagery
    and spatial skills, which in turn just happen to be very useful
    when it comes to doing math reasoning.” Says Michael O’Boyle,
    PhD
    Testosterone taken later in life will not help
    your math, as the window of influence on
    brain development is pretty much prenatal. It
    may enhance muscle mass, but it is unlikely to
    help you solve calculus problems.

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