A Whole New Mind (part one-The Conceptual Age)

1. What surprised me?
-when you turn your head to the left, the right side of your brain largely guided that maneuver.
-we are exercising our left hemisphere even when we are reading a book.(eyes more left to right)

2. what did you already know?
-Left hemisphere controls the right side and right hemisphere controls the left side of the body.
-A lot of people are right-handed.

3. Brand New Words?
-contralateral
-simultaneous
-decipher
-syntax
-miffed
-incongruity
-loathing
-crucial
-bewilderment
-oblige

4. What changes are you going to make?
-I am going to try to use my right and left side equally.

5. Further more questions?
-The writer said that "even the most powerful computers in the world can't recognize a face." However, what if they can?

6.what connection in real life?
-I watched "Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight" on the TED.com. It was quite amazing that how the story was connected to her real life experiences.
I understood the importance of my brain and I am going to keep it safely.