Are People Really Left-Brained or Right-Brained? 

They literally think they have half a brain lol

Klee Remember when people thought they only ever used 10% of their brain? LOL

Oh the days when we thought we used 10%. Now it is obvious we use 5%! XD

***** en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_percent_of_the_brain_myth

***** That more a a metaphor, like someone is capable of being a rocket scientist but they cba learning and just get a job at mcdonalds, then it's like they're only using 10% of their potential.

+Fireflies And Endless Nights mind blown

+Robert Poole O_O

You sir/madam deserve a trophy for that statement

+Fireflies And Endless Nights If you think about it... we are the universe experiencing itself.

+XeatcookiesX *head explodes*

I think its the other way around

We are a part of the universe analyzing another part of the universe analyzing the rest of the universe.

yeah, i know, those myths can get really annoying and you can't have time to explain them to everyone

I know how you feel man, it's so annoying when teachers actually say this kinda stuff too as if it's true, like I once had a chemistry teacher that said that glass is a liquid myth bullshit is true -_-

***** Hate to tell you this, but glass is a non-Newtonian liquid (sometimes called non-Newtonian fluid). Over time it does flow as a liquid.

Nathan Lake *sigh* Here we go again... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass#Structure Just taking a few keynotes from that: "Some people consider glass to be a liquid due to its lack of a first-order phase transition where certain thermodynamic variables such as volume, entropy and enthalpy are discontinuous through the glass transition range. The glass transition may be described as analogous to a second-order phase transition where the intensive thermodynamic variables such as the thermal expansivity and heat capacity are discontinuous. Nonetheless, the equilibrium theory of phase transformations does not entirely hold for glass, and hence the glass transition cannot be classed as one of the classical equilibrium phase transformations in solids." and... "Although the atomic structure of glass shares characteristics of the structure in a supercooled liquid, glass tends to behave as a solid below its glass transition temperature. A supercooled liquid behaves as a liquid, but it is below the freezing point of the material, and in some cases will crystallize almost instantly if a crystal is added as a core. The change in heat capacity at a glass transition and a melting transition of comparable materials are typically of the same order of magnitude, indicating that the change in active degrees of freedom is comparable as well. Both in a glass and in a crystal it is mostly only the vibrational degrees of freedom that remain active, whereas rotational and translational motion is arrested. This helps to explain why both crystalline and non-crystalline solids exhibit rigidity on most experimental time scales." And whelp you can read all of it in the link, there are also many articles and arguments that disprove this really dumb urban legend... Which also boggles my mind as to how some people can still believe things like that and many other myths when we are in an age where we can just quickly fact check everything and consume information faster than ever before, but that's another discussion for another time

of course it's freakin' stupid because there are those annoying people that are good at ANYTHING....

Shauna Blake Bucket's of salt, more like

Heaping dump trucks of salt.

istari314 Uhm... then that means you put more worth into pop cultural references. The more salt, the more worth.

Reaper. "Worth your salt" and "Take x information with x amount of salt" are two very different sayings dummy. When you take something someone else says with pinch of salt, it means that you're doubting what he's at least slightly and you should look further into it. When you claim that someone or something is worth its salt, it means that you're praising them.

George Perakis You're absolutely right an wrong. To take something with any amount of salt more than a grain (the original saying being "take it with a grain of salt") is to give more worth to the idea. So to suggest someone take it with a bucket of salt or a heaping of salt is to insinuate that they should really trust it. And in this instance they were dramatically talking about the truth in the myth of left brain/right brain, which would be a take your amount example. Nice try, though.

ᏒᎬᎠ ᏒᏉᎠᎬᏒ Holy shit, someone who thinks for themself & doesn't need it spoonfed to them by youtube!

Stuart Hardy Cull not everthing online is true xD

ᏒᎬᎠ ᏒᏉᎠᎬᏒ Why, that's half the fun isn't it?

Stuart Hardy Cull of course! It's like a game. What's real or not. Fascinating

Bob the tray

Ooh, that sounds very interesting. I wonder if anyone is trying to do this research! Maybe you...?

I don't think I've seen any studies closely documenting the changes of someone as they learn a language, since that'd require regular scanning of many people over long periods of time. Behavioural science is already kind of cluttered with having too many factors for a lot of long term studies, so that'd be both expensive and scientifically unreliable. For example, if it takes me three years to fully learn a language we can be sure that a lot of stuff has changed in my brain for reasons other than just learning a new language. What we do have, however, is a lot of data comparing bilinguals, monolinguals and monolinguals with a secondary language. This is easier to acquire and a lot of data can be gathered without actually having to scan brains with expensive equipment. Personally, I prefer to take a cognitive approach to the topic, both because I find it more useful, because it lets me just introspect about it and because metacognition is rad as hell. These studies tend to show that there's a noteable and measurable difference between being bilingual and being monolingual but knowing a second language. Generally, to be considered bilingual you need to have high proficiency and early exposure to the second language. There's a ton of interesting research with various perspectives in the topic and the exact differences between being bilingual (or multilingual), monolingual and being monolingual with secondary languages (a lot of purely semantic arguments can be made as well... which is both disappointing and annoyingly fitting for the topic) on all levels, how the learning processes are affected by other factors (age, native language, language learnt, multilingualism, genetics etc. etc.) and how different native languages can affect thinking (Switching language definitely affects my thinking in profound ways, even when that's the only thing that changes).

Shaeress To the last part, I agree completely. English is my 2nd language, and when I think in it, the way I process information and tasks changes drastically, compared to me doing the same tasks in Finnish, my native language. It could be that the two languages are so unrelated, that makes those differences so major, but I would love to learn how it works with which language pairs.

Interesting! DoctorPC pelailut and Shaeress, can you explain in what ways the languages change your thinking? Like, how do you process information when speaking English, vs Finnish, etc? I'm fascinated.

DoctorPC pelailut A local writer I've been told about said that if you change the language you speak in, you also show a different part of your personality through it. If you, for example; hear a joke in English, you might react to it differently than if you would have heard it in Finnish. I think it mostly has something to do with how you associate certain languages with certain mindsets and cultures, which would influence your idea of how you would act as someone who would speak that language if it were their native one. If you learn a new language, you're allowed to sculpt the process of thought you do in said language more freely than the one you were brought up with, being more free of "outside" influence, which might lead to accentuating different traits of your personality. It's why certain words in foreign languages that might be "outdated" in their country wouldn't bear such a stigma for a non-native speaker, and so they wouldn't mind incorporating them in their day-to-day speech. Same goes for figures of speech, typology, etc. All-in-all resulting in a very personalized use of language. I'll shut up now.

***** you know what else is interesting, its efficient like a brain too, that's actually how servers work. I wonder if thats how the idea for Raiding things came from.

SolidToby I think it can be, cause the brain --is a muscle--, is like a muscle, not actually a muscle and it can actually be trained to be as fast as you are willing to put effort. Edit* is like a muscle, not **Is** one. There was a typo on my statement.

***** The brain is not a muscle. The brain is nervous tissue. You may like to watch CrashCourse Anatomy & Physiology: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uBGl2BujkPQ.html

***** you're right I meant is like a muscle. and can be trained like one.

***** Thats not what he meant, he meant it figuratively speeking. As one can train his muscles to get stronger, one can get smarting by using his brain.

+inYourFace Well... Unfortunately, you have a higher chance of acquiring schizophrenia later on in your life. Good luck ;)

Well someone's a narcissist...

+KittyMelon :3 1 out of 4 people according to a survey. But since it's not me, xcross and javier....

inYourFace Thats a pretty good chance.

well someone is getting a too cocky or narcissistic

without an explanation an answer has no value

Farcraft2 Leave it to a jew to judge a book by its' cover then make a public comment about the book. *spits*

I mean the poster by that.

Farcraft2 Shes Pregnant. So whats the value in that

Poke Playah More value than your icon. Most likely.

Are you a sea urchin?

Jet IceBane Republican?

No, he is Bob. Hello Bob. You know that thing from monsters versus aliens...

culwin Please don't start any politic wars...

Okay Scarecrow :P

Colton Byrd nuff said

yes

I actually ended up on this video from searching for that

I LIKE OREOS AND PUSSY (IN THAT ORDER)

Social workers *usually* aren't scientists. But they *could* be both, because of the information in this video!

Naiadryade Edward Kenway To be fair, just because its not technically accurate does not mean its not a useful tool. Its just used as a quick way to identify a person to a stereotype. Not hugely useful, but could/can be a good place to get the ball rolling.

TheTrueSoml2 SQUIRTLE SQUAD! SQUIRTLE SQUAD! SQUIRTLE SQUAD!

TheTrueSoml2 perhaps hes not as smart as he thinks he is OR doesn't understand the need for a control group to base his hypothesis from. Either way you don't want someone that over inflated potentially putting things into your body for tests... or making judgements on your health. In short, you're probably better off.

Even if that's true, it doesn't seem entirely fair that the study should focus only on righties. We want to understand our brains too, especially if they work differently from everyone else's for no intuitive reason!

jdfox37 That's not it. He flat out admitted that they didn't understand lefties enough to include them in the study. I don't think I worded my comment correctly to portray that. It was a pointed study that was trying to determine something more specific than what I can recall now. woodfur00 I'm sure that there are plenty of studies on lefties. We're just not relevant to this current study. To the both of you, I think we're digressing. The study was simply an anecdote to explain where my question arose.

jdfox37 Since it doesn't sound like the nature of the study had to do with handiness, it makes sense to control for this variable. So the control group would also have to be right-handed. The whole point of the control group is that it's members are as similar to the experimental group as possible. Initially the two groups should be interchangeable. Next time you accuse others of perceiving their intelligence as higher than it actually is, make sure you're not making the same mistake.

Fascinating how our bodies handle these SUBDIVISIONS

Under the certain CIRCUMSTANCES, I think we all need to think more complexly and be more of a PRIME MOVER when it comes to giving correct information. #2

someone enlighten me...

NoblexSoul Sorry, but I don't think I have the BRAVADO to explain it to you. Besides, you should probably just look at the clues and read the SIGNALS.

NoblexSoul ya gotta read TOM SAWYER

Myers Briggs is bogus. Read up on Big 5.

@@spitalhelles3380 it's been 8 years lol

Hmm. You're talking about synthetic nervous tissue. That would have many more implications for healthcare and rehabilitation... People with damaged nerves in other parts of the body (I myself have this in 2 places) could have the potential to regain normal feeling/sensation. That would be a great advance in medical science, indeed!

It is actually really important for the two hemispheres to work together in unison. What most people misinterpret is that we literally use one side of our brain: false. It's just that we're dominant in one side, not necessarily a good thing. Scientific perspective, Albert Einstein didn't have an abnormal amount of brain cells, but actually an abnormal amount of connections. It is the ability for the brain to transfer ideas that counts. Philosophical perspective: it's like yin and yang. We want both sides to work in harmony, creativity and logic working together.

supposedly acid does something like that. NOT ENDORSING IT THOUGH!

Crozix My understanding is that this would probably be a bad idea, regarding the brain (I like the ideas other had mentioned for rehabilitation with nerves, and it seems like it might aide in expediting neuroplasticity after a traumatic brain injury). If we were processing more information at any given time though, that would require more blood flow and nutrients/calories, and would result in producing more heat in a small enclosed area (which could then in turn kill cells/cause fevers that might weaken the immune system). It might be great in the short term, but it seems like it could be dangerous.

Dustin Noyfba Acid and various psychedelics do strange things to the brain. Acid causes neurons to stimulate other neurons which are normally isolated. Mushrooms cause parts of the brain to "slow down" and communicate less. Hopefully we will be able to study these more effectively in the future. They could teach us so much about how our brains work.

And realistically, there are going to be people who use one side of there brain more than the other. Its stupid to say left or right, but seems fairly feasible as a sliding scale doohickey.

Ibliss Someone gets it.

You don’t use one side more than the other. You use both sides equally and they interact. Good gracious!

Do you believe that one side is more dominant than the other?

No, you use both sides equally. Did you watch the video?

Ourselves

P.A.P.E.T.M

Chantz Potato.

+chantz ^^^^^ love your name! I've never meet someone with the same way my named is spelled!

evil?

Well you obviously haven’t passed the first grade either

​@@anouk1147Well, he did say he is dyslexic.

Not true. :) There have been many

+Valentina G. but there is no dominant side of the brain.... did you even watch the video

I am cross dominant