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Re: Is your right brain active?
by Tim Wright-3
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Usefully, I've just finished reading "The Human Mind" by Robert Winston. I
think he puts it quite nicely:
"While the left and right hemispheres of our brain each have identical
structures and in normal circumstances are in constant communication with
each other, each half also houses somewhat different functions. Having said
that, the two sides of the brain are in constant communication with each
other. In most people, the left side tends to do more analytical processing.
As well as being the site of language faculties in most people, it is also
often responsible for aspects of reason and deduction. The right side, in
contrast, tends to be a much more holistic machine.
"Much has been written, often without good evidence, about the difference
between the function of the right side of the brain and the left side....."
Essentially: there are differences between the two sides of the brain.
However, in normal circumstances, it doesn't usually matter at all.
However, rather than rely on the pop-culture meaning of right/left brain
being thinking/feeling, I'd prefer to rely on the Thinking/Feeling spectrum
of the Myers Briggs survey - it's actually based on some half-decent
research (allbeit 50 odd years old now).
Tim
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Larry Constantine
<lconstantine@...>wrote:
>
>
> Jon,
>
> Hate to rain on the beans, but this popular and widely distributed "test"
> has been around for many years and is totally without foundation. The
> give-away that this is made up is "Doctors have concluded..." Which
> doctors?
> How? Not only is this not research based but to the extent it tests
> anything, it is most likely testing aspects of visual processing, not
> "right-brain/left-brain." If it were evaluating any documented aspect of
> "right-brain/left-brain" processing, it is what is more likely to be
> "left-brain" attention to detail and serial processing, much as used in
> "Find Waldo" type pastimes.
>
> I use the quotes around "right-brain/left-brain" because, although still
> pervasive in the popular culture the paradigm has been largely abandoned in
> psychology; much of what is attributed to lateralization turns out to be
> much subtler than the simplistic popular models.
>
> --Larry Constantine, IDSA, ACM Fellow
> Professor, Department of Mathematics & Engineering
> University of Madeira | Funchal, Portugal
>
>
>
think he puts it quite nicely:
"While the left and right hemispheres of our brain each have identical
structures and in normal circumstances are in constant communication with
each other, each half also houses somewhat different functions. Having said
that, the two sides of the brain are in constant communication with each
other. In most people, the left side tends to do more analytical processing.
As well as being the site of language faculties in most people, it is also
often responsible for aspects of reason and deduction. The right side, in
contrast, tends to be a much more holistic machine.
"Much has been written, often without good evidence, about the difference
between the function of the right side of the brain and the left side....."
Essentially: there are differences between the two sides of the brain.
However, in normal circumstances, it doesn't usually matter at all.
However, rather than rely on the pop-culture meaning of right/left brain
being thinking/feeling, I'd prefer to rely on the Thinking/Feeling spectrum
of the Myers Briggs survey - it's actually based on some half-decent
research (allbeit 50 odd years old now).
Tim
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Larry Constantine
<lconstantine@...>wrote:
>
>
> Jon,
>
> Hate to rain on the beans, but this popular and widely distributed "test"
> has been around for many years and is totally without foundation. The
> give-away that this is made up is "Doctors have concluded..." Which
> doctors?
> How? Not only is this not research based but to the extent it tests
> anything, it is most likely testing aspects of visual processing, not
> "right-brain/left-brain." If it were evaluating any documented aspect of
> "right-brain/left-brain" processing, it is what is more likely to be
> "left-brain" attention to detail and serial processing, much as used in
> "Find Waldo" type pastimes.
>
> I use the quotes around "right-brain/left-brain" because, although still
> pervasive in the popular culture the paradigm has been largely abandoned in
> psychology; much of what is attributed to lateralization turns out to be
> much subtler than the simplistic popular models.
>
> --Larry Constantine, IDSA, ACM Fellow
> Professor, Department of Mathematics & Engineering
> University of Madeira | Funchal, Portugal
>
>
>
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