Rola neuropsychologii w nowoczesnym nauczaniu

Abstract

This paper deals with possibilities of application to teaching achievements in neuropsychology which concern the asymmetry of cerebral hemispheres functioning and patterns of information encoding (ways of learning). The asymmetry in cerebral hemispheres lunctioning may be tested by means of modern techniques of brain imaging or by means of psychological tests. Such a test - a dominant hemisphere test- was used for a group of almost 500 students of Faculty of Economics and Sociology of Lodz University. The test pointed at a slight predominance of the left hemisphere, which was expected of students of such faculty as the economical one, (sociology students were characterized by the right hemisphere dominance). The same group of students was subjected to a test for dominant sensory channel which showed that the most numerous group of students are so called visualizers, then there are the kinesthetic, and the last ones are the audiles. The test result demonstrates that the traditional lecture is the worst didactic method because it reaches the smallest number of people.