{"id":13666,"date":"2017-06-09T18:35:53","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T13:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/?p=13666"},"modified":"2017-06-09T18:47:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T13:17:50","slug":"left-brain-vs-right-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/left-brain-vs-right-brain.html","title":{"rendered":"Left Brained Geniuses and Right Brained Artists &#8211; Myth or Reality?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many times have you heard, \u201cOh! She is so good at painting, such a right-brained person!\u201d or \u201cLook at you with all your math skills! Such a left-brained thinker you are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With all the growing market for training in \u2018right-brain\u2019 activity, we are rapidly moving towards becoming more creative or right-brain focused and less logic or left-brain focused problem solving. But is it so? Do we have a brain that has such a high level of lateralization or complete division of work to left or right sides? Are the extremely complex processes our mind performs compartmentalized? Let us debunk this left v\/s right brain myth.<\/p>\n<p>Let us first understand how the brain generally works. So you have two sides of the walnut shaped brain &#8211; these two sides are connected by a thin structure called\u00a0<em>corpus callosum<\/em>. This structure&#8217;s primary function is that of a mediator.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is a situation where one is Reading a Text<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13664\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13664\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yourdost-blog-images.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/09180412\/leftbrainrightbrain-1-640x350.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13664 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/yourdost-blog-images.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/09180412\/leftbrainrightbrain-1-640x350.jpg\" alt=\"look at the chart and say the colour not the word\" width=\"640\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13664\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; http:\/\/www.kanyetothe.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The reader will take the paragraph and the brain will now start processing it. The signals will travel to what is called\u00a0<strong><em>Broca\u2019s area<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0on the left hemisphere, and the language processing takes place. The\u00a0<strong>sound of the words<\/strong>; the\u00a0<strong>meaning of the words<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>sentences<\/strong>\u00a0are drawn here.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong><em>corpus callosum<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0simultaneously communicates to the\u00a0<em>Broca\u2019s area<\/em>\u00a0on the right hemisphere. This side will now make sense of the sentences; that is,\u00a0<strong>the intonation: whether it is a question, it is sarcasm, the rhythm, and the timing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The result being a complete language comprehension of the text read. Now take away any of the aspects, and the process will be rendered incomplete.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Does this mean that no activity completely\u00a0dominates a single side of the brain?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, It&#8217;s Not!\u00a0The brain is the perfect delegator. Each activity is carefully and yet incompletely delegated to specific yet diffused areas. Popular psychology still has been promoting the left-right theory, with the increasing self-help tools adding to it.<\/p>\n<p>However, recent studies and the current growth in neuroscience has shown that this is in fact, not true. Though, each hemisphere does have a degree of specialization. Just like in the example above about language processing, left hemisphere takes care of the syntax, semantics, and phonology; and the right hemisphere takes care of the prosody (the rhythm and feel). Everything combined would only make language comprehension complete.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why are some people Left-handed while others Right handed?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yourdost-blog-images.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/09180448\/leftbrainrightbrain-2-640x350.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13665 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/yourdost-blog-images.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/09180448\/leftbrainrightbrain-2-640x350.jpg\" alt=\"Left handed and right handed\" width=\"640\" height=\"350\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 640px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 640\/350;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Probably the most confusing concept that contributes to this hemispherical theory is that of handedness.\u00a0Handedness is still a relatively less understood subject. However, the left brain-right brain theory does help in some areas. It can help one identify what aspect one lacks in.\u00a0Due to a cross-wiring in the brain, the right brain controls the left side of the body and vice-versa. This is one of the reasons lateralization was such a popular concept. During older days when neuro-imaging tools were not available, this concept was what helped determine the language center of a person for a neurosurgeon.<\/p>\n<p>Although neuroimaging studies have shown that complex subjects like maths are processed best when both the sides work together<strong>, one can improve their memory by writing and doing maths physically (left-centered) rather than verbally (right centered).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For everything else, it\u2019s a balancing act! And truthfully, the brain has done a better job at figuring out how to process than we ever can.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Want to become the best version of yourself? 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Such a left-brained thinker you are.\u201d With all the growing market for training in \u2018right-brain\u2019 activity, we are rapidly moving towards becoming more creative or right-brain focused and less [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focus-and-concentration","category-self-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourdost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}