The left brain vs. right brain myth - Elizabeth Waters 

I spent an entire year in a high school psychology class learning completely false things... great. Thanks public education

I'm an artist and every single one of my drawings has a very logic design, each line and color has/needs a "why". I also work as a senior tester that needs to know about different languages of programming to be able to automatize different platforms, its not about brain sides. It is about how much interest do you give to get the knowledge you want..

I love the way the yellow man walks at 1:48.

I got a right vs left Twix ad

I wish I knew this before. I would of roasted my science teacher.

I really don't like the idea of separating logic and creativity, good thing this video tapped on that. I get annoyed when people dichotomize it. And since we are living in a time when romanticism is much more appreciated, people tend to look down on "logical" people. But really, I think logical people aren't really different from creative people. And I'd be honest, I really get annoyed when there are people who post "I am a creative person." And say things that pretend to be "deep". I'm no psychologist, but I think that's actually a sign of non-creativity since they are conforming to the generalized notion of creativity.

There is a great book touching this subject "Drawing on the right side of the brain" by Betty Edwards. As the title suggests, it is mostly about the development of drawing skills, but aside from that it dwells on the idea of right-brain-centralized perception vs. left-brain-centralized verbal functions. She presents various exercises which objective is to activate the right hemisphere and to calm down the dominant left hemisphere in order to develop the proper type of perception needed for artists (spatial relation between objects instead of recognizing objects by their names, which activates the left hemisphere, responsible for verbal functions). Betty Edwards describes with details what processes occur during those exercises, which I have never seen in any how-to-draw book, or any other book to be honest. I can highly recommend this book to anyone, not only aspiring (or professional) artists, but virtually any person interested in the way our brain works and copes with different tasks.

That sounds about RIGHT I'm sorry I LEFT you on that pun. I'm not taking SIDES.

Bo Burnham taught me about the left and right brain

Let's be objective here and choose the right side

Thank you for taking both sides of my brain out of ignorance. I thought this was true.

WOW! I don't know that for years now. I read that misconception in so many books and saw that in so many educational videos on YT. And I agree with the last idea: When I do math and have to prove something, it is the creativity to get good ideas and move things and stack them together or so.

I goodness. I loved the way that was animated and put together. Diggin the background music too

I had to take a mandatory class recently where the curriculum required us to take personality tests, aptitude tests and a left brain/right brain test in order to help us decide our career path. Our teacher kept reciting how all these tests were "proven right by scientists". Luckily, it was only a half credit, but it was still a waste of time.

I actually did my science fair project on this exact topic. I found that there was a slight correlation to right handlers being more logical and left handers being more creative, but it varied person to person

i am tHE RIGHT BRAIN I HAVE FEEEEELINGSS

why is it always about right and left brain? why isnt it ever about right and left testicles?

I really like how this was out together! The visuals were awesome, too.

I suffered a large amount of damage to my left hemisphere and was expected to lose the ability to speak or understand speech - in fact my speech is fine, and I'm far more verbose than I was before the damage. My ability to maintain attention has suffered badly, suggesting to me that the split is more to do with dominant vs non-dominant rather than left vs right. I'm very much left-handed so this seems to make sense in my case. I also suffered complete loss of right visual field in both eyes, but my remaining vision seems to work fine, apart from occasional hallucinations just to the right of my central vision.

Thank you! I always try to bust this myth with my students, now I have a video to show them.

SPEAKING OF CREATIVITY... give the TED-ed animators a prize already!

Thanks for clearing things up.

You just gave yourself a new sub!! I highly appreciate your works!!!

You inspired me to start RU-vid and I'm only at 2,800 subs but I'm loving making videos so much. Thank you TedTalks for being so inspirational!

I never really thought that two halves would be so completely opposite to each other, but that theory was so prevalent I didn't know WHAT to think. Thank you TED-ED!

Really good one. Try it. While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles. Now, while doing this, draw the number six in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction and there is nothing you can do about it.

As a psychology major 10+ years ago, I've long known and believed this. However, after coming into an understanding of oneness, I wonder that if, in fact, their original hypothesis that each side is greatly individualized is correct. The problem with understanding this accurately arose from using external application when measuring brain activity. Yes, doing mathematics requires both hemispheres, but the right hemisphere is used in creativity and estimation while the left hemisphere is used in calculation. Very different. Same with language. Both sides of the brain is used in language. The Left brain is used in diction and syntax while the right brain is used in body language and subtext. Very different. I'm not even saying that there is a strict division in both sides of the brain. I'm saying scientists need to come up with better experiments to test for hemisphere specialization. This starts with a better understanding of intuition versus analysis. It's easy to see why scientists might have a misunderstanding of which testing states require more or pure intuition.

Who's thinking about Bo?

This just proofs that I learn more online than at school

Loved the presentation in the video so much 👍

my school makes us take tests in one class to show what aspects we are involved in and which side of the brain we use more depended on if we answer creatively or analytically. I got both the left and right in my results.

CGP Grey said I am two tho

Omg I'm so glad this was posted. Ppl would say that I'm not creative because of my hand dominance. But I knew that was wrong. But I also knew that I had logistic strengths as well.

Can you make a video one watching horror? Does it make you feel less empathy

Would be nice if this discussion also addressed Betty Edwards book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. In it she addresses work in the 50's regarding the brain to justify her argument that art is created by a dominant right side.

Having hemispheres controlling the opposite side of the body is helpful for defense. If an attacker strikes a person on the left side of the head, the right limbs might be paralyzed, but the limbs on the same side of the attack can be used to fight off the attacker.

Nice lesson and fantastic music ! :D

Hi Ted Ed. I'm not sure if this is how I contact you but here goes. Both my children suffer from a metabolic disorder called MCADD Medium-Chain Acyl-coenzyme A Dehydrogenase Deficiency. I would love a Ted Ed explanation as the Doctors we have understand the condition but have trouble putting it in layman's terms.

I once met someone who kept two notebooks on them. They said it was for keeping separate notes for each side of their brain.

Nice confirmation ty paps. Looking at any EEG you can't conclude differently I would argue.

Exceptional animation!

Who else thought of Bo Burnham's comedy skit?

the background music is bangin 😂😂

I love Teded

Incrivel e de alto nivel parabens!!! :)

Great informations!

What happens to people who are mostly inverted left to right such that their heart is on the right? Do these functions also change places?

I have only 1 Hemisphere, the left one. My right Hemisphere was removed when I was 19 months old to eliminate my severe Epilepsy (100+ seizures a day) caused by an in-utero stroke. There is nothing about how i think, create or respond to stimuli (besides a Blindness on the left side) that indicates any significantly different conscious function or thought process

Did you watch CGP Grey explain the two hemispheres? MINDBLOWING!

"left brain.. left brain, i love you" "...i know."

So where does stuttering come from? Although it is still shrouded in mystery, one of the most popular theories is that stuttering occurs when one side of the brain interacts with the other, leaving the individual incapable of performing the said word. Any thoughts on this?

Hi! I'm sorry to post this here, but I remember watching one of your videos where you explained how some diagonal streets could make traffic worse, but no matter how hard I search, I can't find it! Could you be so kind to point me in the right direction please? Thanks in advance!

goodness this artstyle is lovely

I loved the Disco colors in contrast to the other ordinary colors.

@ 1:05, 1:15, and 1:21 is that why when I cross my eyes, I distort my field of view by intersecting both images?

Could you make a video on the female vs male brain please?

The diagram at 1:14, isnt the pathway misrepresented. Both left part (which looks at the right side) are sent to the left side and both right parts (which looks at the left side) are sent to the right side of the brain. When the video represents in a different way then what is normally taught

When a patient is missing a part of the brain or the other half is in some way significantly damaged, the other healthy side tries to recover those damaged areas of the other. The other half takes over, you could say.

Question: what about split personality after corpus callosum has been split. Myth or true?

WAAAITTTT!! @TED-Ed, in your video uploaded June 23, 2015 titled "The Benefits of a Bilingual Brain", at 2:05, that video says "It's well known that the brain's left hemisphere is more dominant in analytical and logical processes, while the right is more active in emotional and social ones..." O_O !

I think the graphic at 1:16 isn't entirely right. It is true that that e.g. information stemming from the medial (in the case left) side of the visual spectrum of the right eye will be carried by the right optic nerve. But before the light can hit the retina it criss-crosses to the other side. So just as the picture projected on the retina is upside down, it is mirrored vertically too. That means light that hits the _eye_ from its left side will actually hit the right part of the retina.

Do a vid about how someone with a split brain is sometimes unable to control the other half of his/her body

3:44 Hypnotised!!!

The brain was so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

What software do you use to make this video???

That’s odd at my school we have this activity called “right brain” (cause you know, supposedly, that’s the creative side) were they hire a actor or dance artist or something to come to our school and teach us something creative.

Actually, I read a book about how to draw with the right side of the brain, but the author of the book mentions that is only like a concept and not something literally. And that book explains why as well explain the video.

at 3:40 = the golden ratio equation is: 1 + square root of 5, all divided by 2. please correct me if im wrong

This is scientificly for figuring out that people don't know...I like it.I subcribe

Doesn't right or left handedness suggest some sort of 'dominance' of a particular brain region (either left or right) or is that a myth too?

I wounder if having a dominant hand/foot (I'm left handed and left footed) hints towards having a slightly right sided dominance in my brain (as that controls my left side), just a thought.....

PLEASE, MAKE A VIDEO ON *CROSS DOMINANCE*

Thank you

Quick question. what about left and right handedness? is that somehow effected by the brain?

Ive always thought of it as a metaphor like "you are very left-brained" meant you are very creative.

both this /and/ a Tom Scott video on the brain? What a lovely coincidence!

always thought it was a myth, thanks for the video x

thanks a lot

Do a video on if we use 100% of our brain or not. (if you haven't already)

Left left eye nerver crosses right right eye. which goes above, and which goes below the other? Or do they go between each other?

I always thought this myth sounded absolutely ridiculous

just as logic and creativity are not mutually exclusive, neither are emotion and logic

Why are these so short

Thank you for clarifying and debunking this! This myth is actually wrecking havoc on autism research. :(

This video is satisfyingly aesthetic.

What about the outside and inside?

thanks

Great video

They teach about the 2 sides of the brain in high school psychology. But after watching this video I am realizing that half the stuff they thought us was wrong 😂😂

How and why would you have patients without or a separated hemisphere?

Very Nice

Wow Robert Lewis Stevenson/Stephenson back in the mid 1800s was inspired by the idea of the left and right brain! That is so cool. Dr. Jekel and Mr. Hyde

You are surrounding all my surroundings sounding down the mountain range of my left side brain

was waiting fr it

Love this.

I am the Left Brain, I am the Left Brain. I work really hard 'till my inevitable death brain. You gotta job to do, you better do it right, because the right way is with the left brains might.

Iain McGilchrist has studied hemispheric differences for 30 years and is recognized by world class neuroscientists as having a deep - and correct - understanding of hemispheric differences. He ALWAYS begins his talks by saying "the left hemisphere is NOT logical and the right hemisphere is NOT creative. Logic involves BOTH hemispheres and creativity involves BOTH hemispheres. So if he is now considered perhaps the world's expert on hemispheric differences, and has explained that there is a dramatic difference in the way each hemisphere attends to experience, how is it that Ms. Waters failed to even be aware of this?

I love you TED-ED.

Maaaan we're complex. Give glory to God for His awesomeness.

PLease go with geodesic dome