Introduction: As I stated in my last Blog (which also was my first Blog), the first subject I would write about was "The Left-brain/Right-brain Phenomenon". I've studied the phenomenon for over 15 years and came across it quite by accident. I was reading a book titled "The Psychology of Music". The author was a researcher as well as a singer.
Along with many other things he covered in the book was an experiment he arranged to have performed on himself. In the experiment he had the right side of his brain put to sleep (anesthetized). Once it took effect, he found that he could talk, but he couldn't sing. A few days later, when the anesthetic wore of, he had the left side of his brain anesthetized. Now he could sing, but couldn't talk.
The point of this experiment was to show that speech originates in the left side of the brain and the ability to sing comes from the right side of the brain.
Hey, before I go any further I should point out what many of you already know; the top of the human brain is divided into two hemispheres, the right and the left. The phenomenon I'll be discussing is that each of the two halves function quite a bit different from each other.
Back to the author's experiment. A well known country singer, Mel Tillis, stutters badly when he tries to talk. But when he sings, he doesn't stutter at all. There's a story about Mel being in a building when a fire started. He couldn't call out Fire! Fire! so he sang it out as loud as he could.
Next Blog I'll talk about the Basics of the phenomenon and some of the attributes of each half of the brain (Left-brain versus Right-brain).
Very interesting. Laura
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