So, I assume you all know, that brains have two sides, and that one of them is needed for logical thinking, while another one is for creative thinking. Apparently, there are daily cognitive shift, but you don't detect those. For example, when you are reading, your left side of brains take lead, but when you are looking at the picture and thinking of a story, right side of brains take a lead, and so on. There is a book, "The New Drawing on the Right side of the brain", that teaches you, how to do cognitive shifts, so you can force right brains to be in charge even when you are reading. Well I am not going into the detail, and get the book [download it lolz], and read it a bit, it's artistic book to explain how to enable right side of the brains and then draw. So, I though, if you would be on a psychedelic, and how would it be like if you could switch brain sides on your own. Like, right side : visual trip, or left side : very logical thing and so on. I have also heard somewhere that while you are tripping, both sides of brain get connected, which would explain why you are connecting all the emotions, things, with logical thinking, or in short, your logical thinking gets fucked up. Well, I could write so much more, but it's pointless, because there is link to the book: http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/71002609/the+new+drawing+from+right+side+of?tab=summary Now, write your theories rettyplease:
I like the idea that they connect, it is honest that they probably do. This is perhaps the true state of the mind, because I don't think they operate completely independently of eachother, and in realizing this the closer we are to a balance and the less need we find to divide.
My boyfriend is actually reading this book.. Its a really good book it has alot of good interesting facts about the brain.. What is your opinion on left handed individuals having a more developed artistic right-brain??
I guess it comes naturally, as left hand is naturally wired to right brains and so it is activated first.
wtf are you talking about myth? The hemispheres are specialized to excel in particular functions. There is a group of fibers called the corpus collosum which sends information back and forth between the right and left hemisphere. A small portion of people have their corpus collosum cut due to severe seizures or have a faulty corpus collosum, those people are called split brain. Their hemispheres act independently and they usually can function but have trouble seeing or naming objects on one side of the visual field. I'm sorry to sound so condescending but calling the 'right brain/left brain/' a myth to a neurologist would be like telling a geologist the world is flat.
How many neurologists have you asked about it? There is a grain of truth to this belief but it is not nearly as big as everyone seems to think it is. In fact, only a small percentage or neuroscience/neuropsychologists believe that some people are truly "right brained" and others "left brained." Yes, there are twohemispheres in t he brain, this is obviously visible in patients who have had there corpus callosum snipped in order to reduce seizures. A lot of the "some people are left and others right brained" stuff was invented by new wave people looking to make a lot of money by making people feel special. Just like a lot of things many people now consider to be fact. "Hines (1987) states that the research on brain lateralization is valid as a research program, though commercial promoters have applied it to promote subjects and products far outside the implications of the research. For example, the implications of the research have no bearing on psychological interventions such as EMDR and neurolinguistic programming (Drenth 2003:53), brain training equipment, or management training. One explanation for why research on lateralization is so prone to exaggeration and false application is that the left-right brain dichotomy is an easy-to-understand notion, which can be oversimplified and misused for promotion in the guise of science.[16] The research on lateralization of brain functioning is ongoing, and its implications are always tightly delineated, whereas the pseudoscientific applications are exaggerated, and applied to an extremely wide range of situations." http://www.rense.com/general2/rb.htm http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2007/10/the_left_brain_right_brain_myt.php http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/03/two-brains-for-price-of-one.php
You were a little vague with your first post. I was taking it as you didn't think they served different functions at all. Yes there may be some slight exaggerations as to the extent of it. Pretty much any class you take though in school will tell you that the different hemispheres specialize in different functions, and it follows that if one excels in a particular subject like math they are utilizing more of that part of the brain which is more 'developed'. I think it's extremely dangerous to call that a myth, it's testable through numerous different methods. Like the example I gave to we can see the certain faculties that fail once that connections between the two hemispheres are severed and it can even be shown in instances where there is just damage to that particular area of the brain.
the small grain of truth in the right/left brain theory has been greatly exaggerated. i've taken neuroscience, and my professor said it was a myth. different sides of the brain actually take in information from the opposite side of the body, or in the case of vision, one half of each eye goes to one side of the brain. the left side gets input from the right side of each visual field and vice versa. the two sides actually perform similar functions, they just control different areas. to say that creativity comes from the right side, and logical thinking comes from the left (do i have it backwards? doesn't matter) is WRONG
Quoted for truth. Because, it's easy to believe something that both makes (at least some) sense and explains life. Also, though there is only some teensy-tiny bit of truth to the left brain/right brain theory - there are many people who rely on their more artistic mind, or their more creative mind. The more elements of truth to a lie - the harder this is to detect. Pop psychology is very very easy to fall for - but it's not bad to read at all, and does contain seeds of truth. When you read something non-fiction, especially if you like it, always look for a rebut real quick online =P If I didn't do this, I'd probably be a Michael Moore fan =/
This is pseduosocial psychology. I first learned about the left/right brain thing being a myth in a social psychology textbook. Actual social psych is the product of a lot of research and tedious experimentation.
