{"id":2286,"date":"2017-08-30T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T08:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=2286"},"modified":"2017-12-08T02:28:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T02:28:23","slug":"lefty-or-righty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/lefty-or-righty\/","title":{"rendered":"Lefty or Righty?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You’ve surely heard about students being left-brained or right-brained. And: you’ve probably heard that this belief is a myth.<\/p>\n

The folks over at Ted Ed have made a helpful video<\/a> explaining the genesis of this belief, and the ways that we know it’s not true.<\/p>\n

An important note in this controversy: it is certainly true that some people are more creative<\/strong> than others. It’s also certainly true that some are more logical<\/strong> than others. After all–to summarize psychology in three words–people are different<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Also, the phrase “left-brained” may be useful shorthand for\u00a0“rather more logical,” and “right-brained” for\u00a0“more creative than most.”<\/p>\n

After all, we can use the phrase “heart-broken” without believing that this lovelorn person’s heart is–you know–actually broken<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But, we should be quite clear that\u00a0creativity and logical thought aren’t “happening” on different sides of the brain<\/em>. In fact, we should also recognize that a sharp distinction between creativity and logical thought doesn’t even make much sense.<\/p>\n

So: you might be left-handed or right-handed, but you aren’t left-brained or right-brained–except\u00a0in a rather creative way of speaking.<\/p>\n

(By the way, if you’d like to learn about AMAZING research into people who literally have only half a brain, click here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You’ve surely heard about students being left-brained or right-brained. And: you’ve probably heard that this belief is a myth. The folks over at Ted Ed have made a helpful video explaining the genesis of this belief, and the ways that we know it’s not true. An important note in this controversy: it is certainly true […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25,17],"class_list":["post-2286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-neuromyths","tag-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2286"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2289,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions\/2289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}