What is the Brain’s Function?

The brain is organized three dimensionally: Top to Bottom Back to Front Side to Side Physical movement helps to accomplish much of the organizational wiring in the brain because it is not completely wired at birth. Practicing a task builds electrical connections in the brain for the task. That way the task can be performed again without thought. Swimmers, for instance, don’t think about the specific strokes and movements they are performing time and again. They simply perform the activity automatically.

The brain is also split into two parts, the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere. These two halves are quite different from each other and have very specific functions. Lack of integration between the two halves can cause learning problems. People whose brains are not well integrated use one side of their brain at a time. Switching off half of the brain repeatedly can be exhausting for them. There must be integration for efficient learning.