7 sentences with “hemispheres”

The equator is located on the imaginary line that divides the Earth into two hemispheres.

With Columbus, the traffic of goods and merchandise between the two hemispheres began.

It was noted that the most important biological entity exchanged between the hemispheres was the smallpox virus, which was at the centre of the worst epidemic in world history.

The cerebral cortex shows the division that has caused more than one controversy; the right and left hemispheres are physically differentiated, although the same cannot be said of their functions.

But it is true that the brain, with its two hemispheres, its millions of neurons and that spectacular, infinitely folded cerebral cortex divided into four lobes, is the most vulnerable organ of the human being.

It is no coincidence that the year 1492 is often used as the starting point of what historians call the early modern period: when the two global hemispheres first came into sustained contact, it was the starting point of massive change for the human species as a whole.

It is generally accepted that one of the cerebral hemispheres is always dominant - usually the left one - and controls language, numbers, sequences, logic and analysis, while the other part is in charge of imagination, fantasy, music, colour and the idea of volume, spatial location and dimensions. However, this division is not arbitrary, but in many of our actions - conscious or unconscious - both hemispheres are involved.