Sometimes people often say "to the right", meaning "to the left", getting confused in these seemingly simple concepts, known to every person from childhood. What is the reason why they can accurately indicate where is bottom and where is top - but at the same time they are mistaken in defining the right and left sides?
Scientific explanation
A person does not have a sense organ responsible for orientation in the surrounding space, therefore people are able to distinguish between right and left due to the interaction of hearing, sight and touch. The right and left hemispheres of the brain are constantly exchanging information - the connecting link in this exchange is the corpus callosum, which consists of a billion nerve fibers. The size of the corpus callosum in women is larger than in men, as a result of which the female cerebral hemispheres interact more actively and work at the same time.
The well-coordinated work of the cerebral hemispheres allows women to perform several parallel activities - sewing and watching TV, drinking tea and talking on the phone, and so on.
Men, on the other hand, operate with either the left or the right hemisphere, so they can easily concentrate and quickly give an accurate answer to the question "where is right and where is left." However, both among women and among men there are people who simply cannot remember the location of these sides. The reason for this is a number of minor organic disorders that do not affect the psychophysical and general intellectual development of a person - but only on any simple function.
Childhood problem
If an adult is often confused in the right and left sides, it means that in childhood, his parents did not explain to him where the right is and where the left is. Newborn babies initially cannot determine the location of these sides - this skill develops as the child gains knowledge about the world around him.
A child with normal mental development should be oriented in "right and left" by the age of seven.
Since young children do not see the difference between many differentiating concepts, including left and right, they need to be taught this, explaining in detail what is where. You can give your child shoes so that he puts them on his right and left legs on his own, observing his actions. Usually, kids are also taught with a spoon - in which hand is the cutlery, that and the right (of course, if the child is not left-handed). In addition, dances and games can teach you how to orientate in space - for example, you can put toys in different corners of the room and ask your child to bring a bear from the right corner and a hare from the left. The knowledge obtained in the form of images is firmly fixed in the child's mind and remains there for the rest of his life.
