The brain is an organ that has two halves which are called hemispheres. Each hemisphere has different functions. The left and the right sides of the brain are very different. The left side is logical, analytic, rational, objective, deals with reality, and looks at specific parts. In the other hand, the right brain is random, intuitive, subjective, crative, and looks at wholes not at details. The left and right hemispheres are connected and communicate by the corpus callosum which are lots of nerve fibers that are found in the brains of mammals and is composed by white matter. Paul Pierre Broca was a french physician, anatomist, and anthropolisgt born in 1824 and died in 1880. He became famous for discovering the center of speech which was named “Broca area” in his name for discovering it and for discovering many other things in brain localizations and various functions. His discoveries helped a lot for medical information. In the 1960s, Roger Sperry discovered that the ability to talk came from to specfic parts from the left brain. He won a price for dicovering it and he named it “Slit brain” which means that the corpus callosum is damaged a needs an operation; one side of the brain cant feel what is happening on the other. Carl Wernicke was a German physicia, anatomist, psychiatrist, and neuropathologist born in 1848 and died in 1905. After Broca discovered the “Broca Area” he started to investigate more about it and foud out that if the left posterior part of the brain is damaged it can cause problems in language comprehensions so in his name that part is now called the “Wernicke´s areas”. The lobe which is the most responsible for vision is the occipital lobe. The temporal lobe is the lobe incharged of hearing and language. For math calculations you use and also judgemet, reasoning, and impulse control you use the frontal lobe. The brain has so many functions that it is interesting to learn about each one of them.
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