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>>Heidi wrote;
>>For myself, I tend to scan the scenery from left to right.  I'm
>>finding I'm using my right hemisphere to begin my search
>>from the left.

Kalman Rubinson wrote;
>No doubt you think that you are localizing your brain functions but,
>unless you can confirm this with a blind study using imaging (EEG,
>fMRI, MEG, etc), you are merely hallucinating.  If your only proof is
>your perception, it is not reliable.

Peter.T.Daniels wrote:
>As I said, if you can do that, without wearing a portable PET-scan
>device, then your services would be worth millions to any brain
>researcher. If you can introspect and tell us what you are doing when
>you speak or listen or read or write (let alone all the other things
>that brains do!), neuroscience could make strides undreamed of by
>Broca, Wernicke, or Hughlings Jackson.

>> I can especially feel my brain when I come down with a
>> headache or a migraine and I know exactly what location
>> of the brain is affected when I get either of those.

Paul J Kriha wrote:
>That still doesn't change anything on the fact that you
>claimed having "felt" your brain doing something quite
>different.

Kinesics (body language, including gaze direction)
people communicate non verbally (anywhere between
55% and 93%)

Darwin, Deception, and Facial Expression' Paul Ekman
'(Darwin said)'that if you cannot voluntarily activate
 a muscle,then you will not be able to voluntarily inhibit
 its involuntary activation in a spontaneous emotional
 expression'

http://richarddawkins.net/article,514,For-Human-Eyes-Only,Michael-Tomasello
'Why might it have been advantageous for some early
 humans to advertise their eye direction in a way that
 enabled others to determine what they were looking at
 more easily? One possible answer, what we have called
 the cooperative eye hypothesis, is that especially
 visible eyes made it easier to coordinate close-range
 collaborative activities in which discerning where the
 other was looking and perhaps what she was planning,
 benefited both participants.'

There was yet another report that people are more likely
to gaze left or right when trying to solve maths problems
just being creative or thinking about past or future
events. I for one know that when I'm thinking about a past
event I tended to look to the left...which I'm fairly sure
is because thats the way I read.

Heidi may have a point tho, I can look left or right and
know that its an involuntary process connected to my
thinking, my brain activities, it may not tell me exactly
where or how they function, but they are there and I cant
help that (after all I'm only human!!)

If I went through a list of subjects,maths,music,literature,
art,sculpture,sci-fi,etc, and drew a diagram of where they
might fit spatially according to my gaze direction (while
thinking) would they pattern match any areas in the brain?

Ta!

n.

some nice easy links here:
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Modules/MC10220/assignment_45.html
http://staffwww.fullcoll.edu/cflores/additional2.html
http://www.childdevelopmentinfo.com/learning/dyslexia.shtml