My Hemispheres and Me Our brain’s two hemispheres look alike, but they have different function. This specialization of the right and left hemisphere is called lateralization. In the past scientists learned about this functional specialization of our brain by observing people with brain damage or injury and examining they brains after death. Today scientist have other methods. They can monitor brain waves, blood flow, or glucose consumption in the brain to find out which part of the brain is responding to specific stimulus. We do know that left side of the body is control by right side of the brain and right side of the body is controlled by left side of the brain. It was discovered through research that damage to left hemisphere impair reading,
