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Hemispheric Learning and the Hispanic Student.
Contreras, Maximiliano – 1985
People of different cultures differ in the cognitive style they use. Research reports that Mexican American children indicate a preference for field-sensitive cognitive strategies that are spatial-holistic, and middle class children a preference for field-independent strategies that are verbal-analytic. Brain research in hemisphericity appears to…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Cultural Differences